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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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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Southampton
Hampshire
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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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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
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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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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
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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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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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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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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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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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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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Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.
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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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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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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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Everyday is a birthday every moment of it is new to us we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.
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In books, or work, or healthful play.
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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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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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