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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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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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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
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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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For sov'reign pow'r reign not alone, Grace is the partner of the throne Thy grace and justice mighty Lord, Shall well divide our last reward.
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In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.
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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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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.
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Do not be deceived happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
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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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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
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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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If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.
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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
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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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Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.
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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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Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
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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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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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