As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Sweet is the day of sacred rest; No mortal cares shall seize my breast; O may my heart in tune be found… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“Lord, we confess our numerous faults, How great our guilt has been! Foolish and vain were all our thoughts, And all our lives were… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“When the Eternal bows the skies To visit earthly things, With scorn divine he turns his eyes From towers of haughty kings. He bids… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“The Spirit is sent down to breathe On such dry bones as we. 6 Rais'd from the dead we live anew; And justify'd by… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
