"Talking over the things which you have read……" — Isaac Watts

"Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind."

— 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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