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In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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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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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
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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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Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
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Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
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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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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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