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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.

Isaac Watts

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
Hymnwriter
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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