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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
Isaac Watts
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
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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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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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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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If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.
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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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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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What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
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For sov'reign pow'r reign not alone, Grace is the partner of the throne Thy grace and justice mighty Lord, Shall well divide our last reward.
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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
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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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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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Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
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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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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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