Isaac Watts Professions : Writer Born : July 17, 1674 Died : November 25, 1748 Browse All Authors Top 123 quotes by Isaac Watts Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. Isaac Watts violent talking thinking Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation. Isaac Watts meditation mind giving 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again. Isaac Watts complain me you voice Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors