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Isaac Watts
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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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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.
Isaac Watts
To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
Isaac Watts
I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
Isaac Watts
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.
Isaac Watts
Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!
Isaac Watts
Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
Isaac Watts
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.
Isaac Watts
The passions are the gales of life and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
Isaac Watts
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
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From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise ariseLet the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.
Isaac Watts
No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
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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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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
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There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
Isaac Watts
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
Isaac Watts
Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
Isaac Watts
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
Isaac Watts
Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.
Isaac Watts
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
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