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.

“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)

“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)

“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)