Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgement.

Isaac Watts
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  1. This above all: to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare

  2. What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me. - Helen Keller

  3. One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. - Hermann Hesse

  4. Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft. The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman: That may be true. But what can you do about it? Byron: Make a departure. Gutman: From yourself? Byron: From my... - Tennessee Williams

  5. Most people spend their whole lives waging war–against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all." from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS - Germaine Shames

More Quotes By Isaac Watts
  1. Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

  2. How shall polluted mortals dare To sing Thy glory or Thy grace Beneath Thy feet we lie afar And see but shadows of Thy face.

  3. Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

  4. Once a day....call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

  5. Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

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