blessed quotes

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

-Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.7,1098 (translated by Sir David Ross).

Mr Wickham isblessedwith suchhappymanners asmay ensure his making friendswhether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

-Jane Austen
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.18.

Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the L gave, and the L hath taken away; blessed be the name of the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDJob1:21.

Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the L: we have blessed you out of the house of the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms118:26.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 20:35.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation14:13.

A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.4.

   Dichoso el a  rbol que es apenas sensitivo, y ma  s la piedra dura porque e  sa ya no siente, pues no hay dolor ma  s grande que el dolor de ser vivo, ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente. Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain isgreater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.

- Rube  n pseudonym of Fe  lixRube  nGarc|a Sarmiento Dar|  o
Cantos de vida y esperanza,'Lo fatal' ('Fatalism').

Et si uxoris nomen sanctius ac validius videtur, dulcius mihi semper exstitit amic× vocabulum; aut si non indigneris, concubin× vel scorti. Ifthename of wifeseemsmore blessed or more binding, always sweeter to me will be the word lover, or if I may, concubine or whore.

-He  lo|«  se
c.1135  First letter to Peter  Abelard.

You're blessed with a woman's brain: vague, slippery, inexact, interested only inthe personal aspect of a thing.

-Lindesay Robertson ne  e Richardson
  The Getting ofWisdom, ch.9.

   I was born for opera buffa, as well Thou knowest. Little skill, a little heart, and that is all. So beThou blessed and admit me to Paradise.

- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
 Manuscript inscription on the score of his 'Petite Messe Solennelle'.

   Hail to the Chief who in honour advances! Honoured and bless'd be the evergreen Pine!

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Lady of the Lake, canto 2, stanza19,'Boat Song'.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Blessed ishe who hasbeenabletowinknowledge of the causes of things.

-Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro
Georgics, 2.490 (translated by H Rushton Fairclough).

Blessedarethe pure inheart for they haveso muchmore to talk about.

- Edith Newbold ne  e Jones Wharton
  In John O'London'sWeekly,10 Apr.