"A flower, when offered in the bud, is…" — Isaac Watts
"A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice."
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69 Quotes by Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts has 69 quotes on this site.
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
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Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation…
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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
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Tell of His wondrous faithfulness, and sound his power abroad; sing the sweet promise of His grace, the love and…
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What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in…
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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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Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my…
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Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the…
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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…
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual…
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide,…
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Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for…
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of…
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Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste…
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
— William Shakespeare
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the…
— Alex Faickney Osborn
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This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet
— William Shakespeare
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Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How…
— Arthur Symons
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It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good…
— Mira Sorvino
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
— Dorothy Parker
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Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows…
— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.
— Robert Browning
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[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by…
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