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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
Hymnwriter
Philosopher
Poet
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
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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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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
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When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.
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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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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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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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In books, or work, or healthful play.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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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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