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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.
Isaac Watts
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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Isaac Watts
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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
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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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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.
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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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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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The passions are the gales of life and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
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Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.
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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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For sov'reign pow'r reign not alone, Grace is the partner of the throne Thy grace and justice mighty Lord, Shall well divide our last reward.
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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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There's no repentance in the grave.
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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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In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
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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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There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
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