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There's no repentance in the grave.
Isaac Watts
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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
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Hampshire
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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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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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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
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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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Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.
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The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.
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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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Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
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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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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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Do not be deceived happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
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Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.
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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.
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Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
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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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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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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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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
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