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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

Isaac Watts

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
Hymnwriter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
Life
Demands
Amazing
Demand
Divine
Soul
Love

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Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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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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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
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Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
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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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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
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In books, or work, or healthful play.
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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 love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
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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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Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.
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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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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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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
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