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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
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
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Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.
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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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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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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.
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There's no repentance in the grave.
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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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To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.
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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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No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
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The passions are the gales of life and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
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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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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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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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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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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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