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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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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
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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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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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Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
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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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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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The passions are the gales of life and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
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A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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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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Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
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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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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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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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When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.
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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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Sweet is the day of sacred rest No mortal cares shall seize my breast O may my heart in tune be found Like David's harp of solemn sound.
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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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