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 More Quotes by Isaac Watts More Quotes From Isaac Watts Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. Isaac Watts wicked lying way I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet. Isaac Watts temptation feet years The tulip and the butterfly Isaac Watts butterfly nature flower Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth. Isaac Watts evidence customs authority 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. Isaac Watts lovely mind men 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. Isaac Watts flower journey night Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling. Isaac Watts mind travel 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 passion eye men There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains. Isaac Watts pain darkness fire Sweet is the day of sacred rest; Isaac Watts sound heart sweet Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. Isaac Watts fighting children fall 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 rome bible jobs Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me? Isaac Watts poor walks Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home. Isaac Watts streets should home So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain. Isaac Watts relief pain change To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. Isaac Watts divinity rising wise Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again. Isaac Watts slumber voice complaining How doth the little busy bee Isaac Watts shining flower littles 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. Isaac Watts inward air dull What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended. Isaac Watts endure strive
