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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
Hymnwriter
Philosopher
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Theologian
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food our house, our parent, and our nurse.
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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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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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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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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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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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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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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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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
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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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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
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What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
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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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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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