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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
Poet
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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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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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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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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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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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
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Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
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Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?
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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
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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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Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.
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Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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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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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
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Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food our house, our parent, and our nurse.
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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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There's no repentance in the grave.
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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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