"To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise……" — Isaac Watts
"To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine."
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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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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to…
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can…
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