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Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

Isaac Watts

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.
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