Top 100 Blest Quotes

#1. Return of love, more blest may be the view;
As call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.
Sonet56

William Shakespeare

Blest Quotes #7859
#2. What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Blest Quotes #8011
#3. How blest was the created state
Of man and woman, ere they fell,
Compared to our unhappy fate:
We need not fear another hell.

John Wilmot

Blest Quotes #10449
#4. I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Isaac Watts

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#5. Beat, happy stars, timing with things below,
Beat with my heart more blest than heart can tell,
Blest, but for some dark undercurrent woe
That seems to draw - but it shall not be so:
Let all be well, be well.

Alfred Tennyson

Blest Quotes #65632
#6. The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.

H.L. Mencken

Blest Quotes #110278
#7. Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry ... Friendship ... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.

Robert Burns

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#8. Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

Alexander Pope

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#9. For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.

Drake

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#10. Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kissed and it thought of nothing beside. The fair month of May was then in its pride, The flowers were all from the earth fast springing, The sun was laughing, the birds were singing.

Heinrich Heine

Blest Quotes #134307
#11. Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest
But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

John Keble

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#12. Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

Alexander Pope

Blest Quotes #155046
#13. What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?

William Wordsworth

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#14. The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

Edmund Waller

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#15. Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

Alexander Pope

Blest Quotes #201827
#16. Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!

James Hogg

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#17. If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's nephew, all I can say is, I should like to know him too. Introduce him to me, and I'll cultivate his acquaintance.

Charles Dickens

Blest Quotes #214953
#18. Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

Robert Montgomery

Blest Quotes #219777
#19. All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

William Blake

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#20. An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.

Petrarch

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#21. Hail, blest Confusion! here are met
All tongues, and times, and faces;
The Lancers flirt with Juliet,
The Brahmin talks of races.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Blest Quotes #239894
#22. While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end.

William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

Blest Quotes #244417
#23. Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.

Richard B. Garnett

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#24. The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

Euripides

Blest Quotes #269461
#25. Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast,
Too credulous lover
Of blest and unblest?
Say, when in lapsed ages
Thee knew I of old?
Or what was the service
For which I was sold?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blest Quotes #277820
#26. Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream,
Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd;
The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam
Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

James Gates Percival

Blest Quotes #291585
#27. No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

William Cowper

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#28. O the blest eyes, the happy hearts,
That see, that know the guiding thread so fine,
Along the mighty labyrinth."
-from "Song of the Universal

Walt Whitman

Blest Quotes #317597
#29. The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.

Walter J. Phillips

Blest Quotes #357409
#30. But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

Homer

Blest Quotes #364401
#31. They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

Oliver Goldsmith

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#32. Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.

Thomas Jefferson

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#33. My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

Robert Burns

Blest Quotes #402787
#34. Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

Alexander Pope

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#35. It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you.

Walter Savage Landor

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#36. Blest hour! It was a luxury
to be!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#37. I had such a mother as few are blest with; a woman of strong power, and firm resolve.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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#38. Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

Oliver Goldsmith

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#39. And bid them love each other and be blest:
And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves,
And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Blest Quotes #525277
#40. Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#41. When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat;
Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay:
To-morrow's falser than the former day;
Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest
With some new joys, cuts off what we possesst.

John Dryden

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#42. Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

John Armstrong

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#43. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest
blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

Charlotte Bronte

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#44. Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

Joseph Warren

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#45. Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

John Milton

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#46. When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

William Butler Yeats

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#47. For hearts where wakened love doth lurk,
How fine, how blest a thing is work!
For work does good when reasons fail.

Jean Ingelow

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#48. Blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please.

William Shakespeare

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#49. On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw
A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw,
A Buddha, hand at rest,
Hand lifted up that blest;
And right between these two a girl at play
That, it may be, had danced her life away ...

William Butler Yeats

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#50. Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.

John Donne

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#51. Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

Thomas Jefferson

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#52. There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

Sophocles

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#53. Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labor when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

Alexander Pope

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#54. Come what may, I have been blest.

Lord Byron

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#55. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

William Collins

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#56. Though very poor, may still be very blest.

Oliver Goldsmith

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#57. Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Alexander Pope

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#58. Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

John Dryden

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#59. How blest am I in this discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds is to be free;
Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be.
Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be

John Donne

Blest Quotes #860218
#60. Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.

Edward Young

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#61. How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!

Tibullus

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#62. Everything we look upon is blest.

William Butler Yeats

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#63. Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,
Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.

Izaak Walton

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#64. Do all men kill the things they do not love ... The quality of mercy is not strain'd
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

William Shakespeare

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#65. Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
not seeing and not hearing, I am blest;
so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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#66. Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

Oliver Goldsmith

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#67. How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.

Louisa May Alcott

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#68. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
The bed be blest that I lie on.
Four angels to my bed.
Four angels round my head.
One to watch and one to pray,
And two to bear my soul away.

Don Reid

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#69. Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

Philip James Bailey

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#70. She commands who is blest with indifference.

Nicolas Chamfort

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#71. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.

Muriel Rukeyser

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#72. The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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#73. Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.

John Boyle O'Reilly

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#74. Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#75. The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

Alexander Pope

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#76. Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

Muriel Rukeyser

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#77. How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

Oliver Goldsmith

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#78. If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

William Butler Yeats

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#79. "Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!"

Charles Dickens

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#80. Good fortune then!
To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

William Shakespeare

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#81. It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

William Cowper

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#82. Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

Euripides

Blest Quotes #1351577
#83. Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

George Bernard Shaw

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#84. Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory! ...
Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most
intimately associated with it and it blesses all those who see
it, hear it, touch it or breathe the same atmosphere.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

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#85. Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.

Aeschylus

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#86. Blest be the art that can immortalize,
the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

William Cowper

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#87. While all the future, for thy purer soul,
With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

William Wordsworth

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#88. Blest is that government where no art thrives.

Thomas Nashe

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#89. O Paradise, O Paradise! Who doth not crave for rest? Who would not see the happy land Where they that loved are blest? Refrain Where loyal hearts and true Stand ever in the light, All rapture through and through In God's most holy sight. O Paradise, O Paradise, The world is growing old;

Theron Brown

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#90. The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.

William Wordsworth

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#91. Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.

John Keble

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#92. Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

Alexander Pope

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#93. Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

Robert Burns

Blest Quotes #1632731
#94. Bless God, he went as soldiers,
His musket on his breast
Grant God, he charge the bravest
Of all the martial blest!
Please God, might I behold him
In epauletted white
I should not fear the foe then
I should not fear the fight!

Emily Dickinson

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#95. O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll; While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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#96. How sweet is mortal Sovranty!" - think some: Others - "How blest the Paradise to come!" Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest; Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!

Omar Khayyam

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#97. Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Samuel Rogers

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#98. But little Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Still you are blest, compared with me!

Robert Burns

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#99. A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

Oscar Romero

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#100. Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale,
Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail,
To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours,
Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.

Samuel Rogers

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