Isaac Watts Quotes

When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

Isaac Watts

• Fear
• Eye
• Farewell
• Weeping

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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  • Fear
  • Two

• The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
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• Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.

  

  Rain Phoenix
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  • Eye
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• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
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  • Slave

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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  • Challenge
  • Doors

• I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Love
  • Think

• With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Fear
  • Competition
  • Wealth

• I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • World
  • Death
  • Fear

• Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Faith

• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Him

• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Grief

• My birthmark essentially looks like I have a black eye. It isn't that bad, so you can imagine if it has been this big a part of my life, think of what it must be like for children with more serious birthmarks that cover half their face.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Life
  • Children
  • Bad

• Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Experience

• The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Eye
  • Prison
  • Brotherhood

• If you’ve had to overcome an obstacle or insecurity or fear... genuinely you can bet on that person because they have gathered themselves and found through their inner strength, they have determination, they have grit.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Fear
  • Determination
  • Insecurity

• Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Good
  • Truth

• 'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Fear

• My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Good
  • Great
  • Fear

• When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Good
  • God
  • Character

• Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Father
  • Son
  • Littles

• I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • God
  • Day
  • Thankful

• If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Problem
  • Artist
  • Rap

• When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Fear
  • Eye
  • Farewell