“But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other's eyes.”

—  Isaac Watts

Song 16: "Against Quarrelling and Fighting".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)

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English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674–1748

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