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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

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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 common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
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No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.
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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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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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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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There's no repentance in the grave.
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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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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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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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Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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In books, or work, or healthful play.
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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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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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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
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