Isaac Watts: Likeness

Isaac Watts was English hymnwriter, theologian and logician. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“I have been there, and still would go;
'T is like a little heaven below.”

Isaac Watts

Song 28: "For the Lord's Day Evening".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)

“My faith would lay her hand
On that dear head of Thine,
While like a penitent I stand,
And there confess my sin.”

Isaac Watts

Source: Attributed from postum publications, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 72.

Faith

“Fly, like a youthful hart or roe,
Over the hills where spices grow.”

Isaac Watts

Hymn 79, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I.
Attributed from postum publications, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

Youth , Flying

“Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.”

Isaac Watts

Psalm 90 st. 5.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)

Dreams , Time , Flying

“A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.”

Isaac Watts

Psalm 90 st. 4.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)

Age , Sun , Night