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Isaac Watts was an English writer, primarily known for his hymns and educational works. Born on July 17, 1674, he is credited with shaping the hymnody of the English-speaking world. Watts' writings emphasized moral and spiritual themes, and he is remembered for his influential educational philosophy that emphasized the importance of early childhood education.

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Famous Isaac Watts Quotes

“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.”

Mind Persons Use Would Be Form Passion Enjoy Hours Perfect Judgment Silent Deliberate Composure

Book:The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes

Source: The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes

“Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.”

Giving Mind Study Meditation Argument Vigor

Book:The Beauties of the Late Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts

Source: The Beauties of the Late Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts

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

Mind May Imagination Study Strikes Something New Perpetual

Author:Isaac Watts

“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.”

Ifs Mind Two Three Study Logic Secure Dry Entertaining Pursued Weariness

Author:Isaac Watts

“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.”

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Author:Isaac Watts

“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.”

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Author:Isaac Watts

“Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.”

Author:Isaac Watts

“Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.”

Mind Calm Carrie Temper Contemplating

Book:The Improvement of the Mind

Source: The Improvement of the Mind

“Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.”

Mind Book Talking Companion

Author:Isaac Watts