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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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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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A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
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Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
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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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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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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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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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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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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
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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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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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Do not be deceived happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
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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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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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