Isaac Watts Quotes

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

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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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'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.

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

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

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Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

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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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To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

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I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

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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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Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

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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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So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

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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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In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.

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Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

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There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.

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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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The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.

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He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.

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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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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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Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew.

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Death, like an overflowing stream,
Sweeps us away: our life's a dream,...

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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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Thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding,
Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

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

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Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.

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A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

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