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At books, or work, or healthy play, let all my years be passed; that I may give for every day a good account at last (Isaac Watts Quotes)
Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear. Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here (Isaac Watts Quotes)
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge (Isaac Watts Quotes)
Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature (Isaac Watts Quotes)
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation (Isaac Watts Quotes)
When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness (Isaac Watts Quotes)
The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things (Isaac Watts Quotes)
Softly his fainting head he lay upon his maker’s breast; his maker kiss’d his soul away, and laid his flesh to rest (Isaac Watts Quotes)
What heavy guilt upon him lies! How cursed is his name! The ravens shall pick out his eyes, and eagles eat the same (Isaac Watts Quotes)
The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Earth has no unpolluted spring) From the cursed soil some dang’rous taint they bear; so roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting (Isaac Watts Quotes)
In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor (Isaac Watts Quotes)
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination (Isaac Watts Quotes)
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest (Isaac Watts Quotes)
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower world (Isaac Watts Quotes)
Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light (Isaac Watts Quotes)
It was a saying of the ancients, truth lies in a well; and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water (Isaac Watts Quotes)
The calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure (Isaac Watts Quotes)
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome (Isaac Watts Quotes)
He that has treasures of his own may leave the cottage or the throne, may quit the globe, and dwell alone within his spacious mind (Isaac Watts Quotes)
Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world (Isaac Watts Quotes)
When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy (Isaac Watts Quotes)
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul (Isaac Watts Quotes)
Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness (Isaac Watts Quotes)
The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding (Isaac Watts Quotes)
How glad the heathens would have been, that worship idols, wood and stone, if they the book God had seen (Isaac Watts Quotes)
Even bees, the little alms men of spring flowers, know there is richest juice in poison - flowers (Isaac Watts Quotes)
O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, be thou our guard while troubles last, and our eternal home! (Isaac Watts Quotes)
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food (Isaac Watts Quotes)
Fairest of all the lights above, thou sun, whose beams adorn the spheres, and with unwearied swiftness move, to form the circles of our years (Isaac Watts Quotes)
It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure (Isaac Watts Quotes)