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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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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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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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Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!
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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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In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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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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Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
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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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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
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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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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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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
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There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
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