"Though reading and conversation may furnish us with……" — Isaac Watts
"Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment."
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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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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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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 Conversation Quotes
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
— Richard Armour
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
— Antonin Artaud
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
— Mary Astell
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
— Jane Austen
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which,…
— Douglas Adams
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I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
— Charles Barkley
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
— Mario Batali
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
— Joseph Addison
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
— Yogi Berra
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Love without conversation is impossible.
— Mortimer Adler
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I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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