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• The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

  Maya Angelou

  Gratitude, Children, Simple

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

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• My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason.

  Joe Queenan

  Book, Taken, Fighting

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• When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?

  Michael Faraday

  Words Of Wisdom, Hieroglyphics, May

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• Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Mad, Bored

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.223, Storey Publishing

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• To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.

  Sophocles

  May, Born, Match Point

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• There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

  William Graham Sumner

  Nature, Blessing, Self

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

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• Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

  Plato

  Art, Stars, Philosophy

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• The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Sleep, Heart

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)

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• Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

  Ovid

  Thankful, Gratitude, Thanks

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• Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Cities, Ideas, Watches

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2006.

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• Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

  Lynne Truss

  Communication, Care, Texting

  "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.

  James Wolcott

  Dvds, Rays, Hollywood

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• Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, "Let's go!" and lead them on a great adventure.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Heart, Adventure

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.69, Bantam

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• I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers are read. That is a real boon, and it is something I think every scholar or writer can benefit from.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Real, Reading, Thinking

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Angel, Luxury

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• Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Relationship, Letting Go, Running

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• Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

  Alan Brennert

  Degrees, Fool, Masters

  Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i”, p.205, Macmillan

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• The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

  Dale Carnegie

  Grateful, Heart, Thinking

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.123, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• And fairy month of waking mirth
  From whom our joys ensue
  Thou early gladder of the earth
  Thrice welcome here anew
  With thee the bud unfolds to leaves
  The grass greens on the lea
  And flowers their tender boon receives
  To bloom and smile with thee.

  John Clare

  Spring, Flower, Joy

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• If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, Doubt, May

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• The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

  John Jay Chapman

  Heartbroken, Home, Ambition

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• And let them pass, as they will too soon,
  With the bean-flowers' boon,
  And the blackbird's tune,
  And May, and June!

  Robert Browning

  Summer, Flower, June

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.26, Pearson Education

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• Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.

  Albert Einstein

  Fear, Race, Order

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• Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

  Garrison Keillor

  Wine, Boys, Firsts

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• I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.

  Margaret Caroline Anderson

  Knowledge, Artist, Differences

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