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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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There's no repentance in the grave.
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Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.
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Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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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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Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
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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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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
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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 hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
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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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Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
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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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