Quotes by Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

Age

Night

Sight

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

Decay

Secret

Spiritual

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Acquaintance

Ignorance

Stupidity

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Argument

Littles

Patient

Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.

Lovely

Men

Mind

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.

Intellectual

Men

Reading

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other’s eyes.

Children

Eye

Passion

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

Authority

Customs

Evidence

Dear Lord. I give myself away. I’ve nothing else to give.

Dear Lord

Giving

Lord

Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life’s a dream.

Dream

Our Lives

Streams

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Acquaintance

Age

Air

Appearance

Argument

Art

Authority

Beautiful

Believe

Bible

Bliss

Blood

Blow

Book

Chance

Change

Character

Children

Christ

Christian

Complaining

Customs

Dear Lord

Death

Decay

Demand

Depth

Difficult

Divinity

Doe

Dream

Dull

Dust

Dying

Endure

Evidence

Evil

Expected

Eye

Father

Feet

Flames

Flower

Forgiveness

Friday

Giving

God

God Love

Gold

Grace

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Quotes by Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

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.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other’s eyes.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

Dear Lord. I give myself away. I’ve nothing else to give.

Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life’s a dream.

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