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Now shall my inward joys arise,
And burst into a song;
Almighty love inspires my heart,
And pleasure tunes my tongue.

Isaac Watts

Song, Heart, Joy

Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.111

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Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

Isaac Watts

Travel, Mind

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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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Pain, Night, Land

Isaac Watts (1811). “Hymns and Spiritual Songs ... With some additional hymns, taken from the Doctor's sermons”, p.180

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How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!

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Flower, Shining, Littles

Divine Songs for Children "Against Idleness and Mischief " l. 1 (1715) See Carroll 5

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Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

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Flower, Night, Journey

Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.468

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When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

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Jewels, Certain, Observation

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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

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Ideas, Government, Over You

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Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

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World, Human Nature, Glory

Isaac Watts (1824). “Logic, or the right use of reason in the inquiry after truth”, p.9

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Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

Isaac Watts

Friday, Sacrifice, Blood

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There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.

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Pain, Fire, Darkness

'Heaven and Hell' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

Isaac Watts

Believe, Credit, Authority

Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.417

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Salvation, O the joyful sound!
'Tis pleasure to our ears;
A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound,
A cordial for our fears.

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Sound, Ears, Reign

Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.180

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In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

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Hands, Would Be, Satan

'Against Idleness and Mischief' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

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Hands, Laziness, Satan

Isaac Watts, “How Doth The Little Busy Bee”

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The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

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Passion, Rising, Gale

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Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
To mourn, and murmur and repine,
To see the wicked placed on high,
In pride and robes of honor shine.
But oh, their end, their dreadful end,
Thy sanctuary taught me so,
On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,
And fiery billows roll below.

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Pride, Power, Rocks

Thomas Hastings, Isaac Watts, William Patton (1836). “The Christian Psalmist: Or, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, with Copious Selections from Other Sources”, p.127

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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

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Wise, Divinity, Rising

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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.

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Passion, Eye, Men

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Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

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Soul, Way, Sin

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To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.

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Air, Inward, Dull

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Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

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Judging, Helping, Logic

Isaac Watts (1809). “Logic: Or, The Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth”, p.7

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Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?

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Poor, Walks

Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.208

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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.

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Children, Fall, Fighting

'Love between Brothers and Sisters' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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If I could reach from pole to pole
or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul
The mind's the standard of the Man.

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Ocean, Men, Soul

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Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

Isaac Watts

Voice, Complaining, Slumber

'The Sluggard'

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Died: November 25, 1748
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