"Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a…" — Isaac Watts

"Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting."

— Isaac Watts

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69 Quotes by Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts has 69 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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…
What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in…
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…
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the…
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe…
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual…
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide,…

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Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,… — David Attenborough
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our… — Paul Auster
In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,… — Diane Ackerman
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. — Richard Bach
I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy… — Amitabh Bachchan
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. — Russell Baker
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not… — Russell Baker
Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most… — Simon Baker
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We… — Lucille Ball

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