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

Isaac Watts

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Isaac Watts
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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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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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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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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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Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
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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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Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.
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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
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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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Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
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Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.
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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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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
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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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