"For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
"Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative."
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Source: Isaac Watts (1776). “The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament: And Applied to the Christian State and Worship. by I. Watts”, p.128
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