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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
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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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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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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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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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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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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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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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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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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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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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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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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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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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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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When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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