Isaac Watts Quotes - Page 5

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.

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

For sov'reign pow'r reign not alone, Grace is the partner of the throne; Thy grace and justice mighty Lord, Shall well divide our last reward.

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.

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.

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

In books, or work, or healthful play.

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.

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings