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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest No mortal cares shall seize my breast O may my heart in tune be found Like David's harp of solemn sound.
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thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.
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What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.
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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.
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Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
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Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
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From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise ariseLet the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.
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Do not be deceived happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
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A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
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When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
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A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
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So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.
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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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