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 Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them. Isaac Watts credit authority believe 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. Isaac Watts human-nature glory world Was it for crimes that I had done Isaac Watts easter tree love-is In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies. Isaac Watts wise character men Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness. Isaac Watts degrees pride reason Dear Lord. I give myself away. I've nothing else to give. Isaac Watts dear-lord lord giving It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure. Isaac Watts passion perfect mind There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. Isaac Watts pain land night There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care; And everywhere that we can be, Thou, God art present there. Isaac Watts flower blow art 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. Isaac Watts prejudice self long 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 sacrifice friday blood 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. Isaac Watts sin soul way Death, like an overflowing stream, Isaac Watts our-lives streams dream It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water. Isaac Watts doe water lying In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. Isaac Watts satan would-be hands I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie. Isaac Watts writing may trying 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. Isaac Watts dust dying death Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind. Isaac Watts mind talking book Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. Isaac Watts depth understanding time Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. Isaac Watts argument patient littles
