Isaac Watts Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.
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In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still;While words of learned length, and thundering soundAmazed the gazing rustics ranged around;And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,That one small head could carry all he knew.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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The Apocrypha... ought to be bound up with all your Bibles; it contains much that is beautiful and wise, and there is in history nothing finer than the description of Eleazar's end.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
