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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

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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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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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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Do not be deceived happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
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To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.
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Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
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Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
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If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.
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It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
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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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Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.
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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
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Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
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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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