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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

Isaac Watts

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence.
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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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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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Everyday is a birthday every moment of it is new to us we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.
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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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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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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish to rage and be furious is brutish and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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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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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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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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Do not be deceived happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
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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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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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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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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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Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
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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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thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.
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