Isaac Watts Quotes

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• Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
• Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
• Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
• No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
• Tell of His wondrous faithfulness, and sound his power abroad; sing the sweet promise of His grace, the love and truth of God.
• What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.
• There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
• Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.
• 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…
• When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
• To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the…
• Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
• Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent,…
• But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.
• 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…
• Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and…
• Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth…
• To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their…
• Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and…
• The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.

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