148 Quotes by Isaac Watts

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

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.

Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

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

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.

There’s no repentance in the grave.

Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span I would be measured by the soul The mind’s the standard of the man.

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.

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold.