Isaac Watts Quotes

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Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.

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.

Isaac Watts
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.

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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

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'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain,
'You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again'.
As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
Turns his sides and his shoulders and his heavy head.

Isaac Watts
The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I:
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Isaac Watts
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.

Isaac Watts
Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

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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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Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.

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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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No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.

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I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.

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Now shall my inward joys arise,
And burst into a song;
Almighty love inspires my heart,
And pleasure tunes my tongue.

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What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

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It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

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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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Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.

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O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.

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Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.

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Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measured by my soul;
The mind's the standard of the man.

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And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

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Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone.
Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.

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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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Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber,
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.

Isaac Watts