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
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • American
  • Stand

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

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

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

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Allah

• 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
  • Dark
  • Eye
  • Choice

• You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Failure

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

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Slave

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

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • 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

• I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Art
  • Girl

• Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Same

• 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

• I totally don't believe that things have to be expensive for beauty. In fact, I'm always a little bit wary if they are... because I'm like, 'What kind of chemicals are in there? What's going to happen in ten years, when we find out what the side effects are?'

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Believe

• In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • May
  • Fall

• Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

  

  John Gay

• 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