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

Isaac Watts

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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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In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
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What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
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Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?
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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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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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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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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
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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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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
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When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
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Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.
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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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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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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
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