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• I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Memories, Father, Heart

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• But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Hands, Evil

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Hard Times”, p.120, Trajectory Inc

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• How thankful I am, how thankful we all must be, for the women in our lives. God bless them. May His great love distill upon them and crown them with luster and beauty, grace and faith.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Great Love, Grace, May

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• Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Yield, Hands, Soul

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• Now to find Tristan, if he survived the excitement. I hope he did. I have some things to say to him, and none of them are 'Goddess bless'. -Numair Salmalin

  Tamora Pierce

  Excitement, Goddess, Ifs

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• The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Book, People, Realizing

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• But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

  Eugene Field

  Food, Blessed, Night

  'Apple Pie and Cheese'

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• Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.

  Linda Howard

  Heart, Littles, Complication

  Linda Howard (2010). “Veil of Night: A Novel”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold me still. Back let them fall from me, my clamorous foes, Confusions multiplied; From crowding things of sense I flee, and Thee I hide. Until this tyranny be overpast, Thy hand will hold me fast; What though the tumult of the storm increase, Grant to Thy servant strength, O Lord, and bless with peace.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Art, Fall

  Amy Carmichael (1999). “Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael”, p.466, CLC Publications

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• Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Pain, Adversity

  John Wesley (2011). “Renew My Heart”, p.108, Barbour Publishing

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• When you trust in the Lord, when you are willing to let your heart and your mind be centered in His will, when you ask to be led by the Spirit to do His will, you are assured of the greatest happiness along the way and the most fulfilling attainment from this mortal experience. If you question everything you are asked to do, or dig in your heels at every unpleasant challenge, you make it harder for the Lord to bless you.

  Richard G. Scott

  Heart, Challenges, Mind

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• Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Tired, Blessing

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, VIII: The End of the World, 1925.

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• You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Dark, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.

  Andrew Murray

  Men, Water, Flow

  Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility”, p.19, Whitaker House

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• God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.

  Andrew Murray

  Thinking, Effort, Church

  Andrew Murray (2009). “Absolute Surrender”, p.39, Moody Publishers

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• Bless my soul,” whispered the old bartender, “Harry Potter . . . what an honor.

  J. K. Rowling

  Soul, Honor, Potters

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• ...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Running, Children, Silly

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• I’ve always been able to tell a lot about people by whether they ask me about my scar. Most people never ask, but if it comes up naturally somehow and I offer up the story, they are quite interested. Some people are just dumb: 'Did a cat scratch you?' God bless. Those sweet dumdums I never mind. Sometimes it is a fun sociology litmus test, like when my friend Ricky asked me, 'Did they ever catch the black guy that did that to you?' Hmmm. It was not a black guy, Ricky, and I never said it was.

  Tina Fey

  Sweet, Fun, Cat

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• I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Blessed, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Errors, Law

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Men, Odds

  "A Letter to My Nephew" by James Baldwin, progressive.org. January 1, 1962.

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• Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Baby, Children, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for May, & you are the chosen ones. God bless your rock hearts.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Strong, Sorry, Heart

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• Cole made a hissing sound. "Are you inside yet? God bless America and all her sons. What is taking you so long?" The front door was locked. "Here, talk to Grace" "Mommy isn't going to give a different answer than Daddy," Cole said, but I handed her the phone anyway.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Son, Phones, Doors

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.833, Scholastic Inc.

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• You don't systematically disagree with the President of the United States or intervene in American politics and expect that he is going to bless your name.

  Robert Bothwell

  President, Disagree

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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