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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Hampshire
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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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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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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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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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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
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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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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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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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What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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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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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
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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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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
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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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Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
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