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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Do not be deceived happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
Isaac Watts
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.
Isaac Watts
Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!
Isaac Watts
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.
Isaac Watts
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
Isaac Watts
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Isaac Watts
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.
Isaac Watts
I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
Isaac Watts
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.
Isaac Watts
Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.
Isaac Watts
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
Isaac Watts
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.
Isaac Watts
Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
Isaac Watts
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
Isaac Watts
Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.
Isaac Watts
I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.
Isaac Watts
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Isaac Watts
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
There's no repentance in the grave.
Isaac Watts
Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
Isaac Watts