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Blessing Quotes - Page 59

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

George Washington, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.168

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

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