"No science is speedily learned by the noblest……" — Isaac Watts
"No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition."
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69 Quotes by Isaac Watts
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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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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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Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and…
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More Genius Quotes
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
— Pietro Aretino
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
— Antonin Artaud
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
— Charles Babbage
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
— Francis Bacon
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much…
— Francis Bacon
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
— George Matthew Adams
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