"Some have a violent and turgid manner of……" — Isaac Watts
"Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative."
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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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