Blessing Quotes - Page 59
"The Federalist on the New Constitution".
"Reach Up for the Light".
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19
Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
Hannah More (1827). “The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life”, p.112
Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.60, Penguin
[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.
Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
George Washington, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.168
George Mason's letter to his daughter Sarah Mason McCarty after the death of an infand daughter (February 10, 1785) as quoted in Kate Mason Rowland "The Life of George Mason, Volume 2: 1725-1792" (p. 74), 1892.
We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.140, Lulu.com