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There's no repentance in the grave.

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
Hymnwriter
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.
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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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Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
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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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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
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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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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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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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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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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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Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
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Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears.
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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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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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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.
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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
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Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
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There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
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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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