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In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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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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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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In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
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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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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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In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
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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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Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence.
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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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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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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.
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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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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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Do not be deceived happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
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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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It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
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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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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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Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
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