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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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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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Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.
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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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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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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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When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
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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.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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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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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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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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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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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
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In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
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A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
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It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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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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In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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