Isaac Watts Short Quotes

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

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Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

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The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

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Death like a narrow sea divides
This heavenly land from ours.

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Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

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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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How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

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Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?

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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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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

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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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How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!

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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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Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.

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

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Was it for crimes that I had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! Grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!

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A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.

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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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Alexander the Great…when he had conquered what was called the Eastern World…wept for want of more Worlds to conquer.

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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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