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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
Hymnwriter
Philosopher
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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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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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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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
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When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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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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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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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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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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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.
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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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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
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Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.
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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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There's no repentance in the grave.
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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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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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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
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