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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
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Isaac Watts
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In books, or work, or healthful play.
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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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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence.
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Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish to rage and be furious is brutish and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.
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Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.
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Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.
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Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!
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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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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.
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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
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