Greatest Blessings Quotes - Page 2

• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

  Joseph Addison

  Blessed, Blessing, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.300

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• Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

  Andrew Jackson

  Blessing, Men, Race

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Blessing, Convince Us, Years

  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.

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• The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Life, Encouragement, Religious

  "Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock".

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• God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.

  Israel Shenker

  Children, Blessing, Support

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

  Plato

  Death, Blessing, Men

  Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

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• Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

  Mark Twain

  Good Life, Inspiration, Humor

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

  Helen Keller

  Cancer, Struggle, Blessing

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• To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

  Gautama Buddha

  Communication, Blessing, Discipline

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• I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.

  Sara Coleridge

  Strong, Book, Men

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.175

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• God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the taking of innocent life. We expect Him to protect us in a crisis, but turn away from Him too often in our day-to-day living. I wonder if He isn't waiting for us to wake up.

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Religious, Blessing

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Passion, Blessing, Men

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• The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I pray that we may qualify for those blessings and rejoice forever.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Flower, Blessing, Law

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• I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

  Jack Johnson

  Ocean, Men, Blessing

  Jack Johnson (1969). “Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography”

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• Man was mark'd
  A friend in his creation to himself,
  And may, with fit ambition, conceive
  The greatest blessings, and the highest honors
  Appointed for him, if he can achieve them
  The right and noble way.

  Philip Massinger

  Ambition, Men, Blessing

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1859). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford”, p.356

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• [On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

  Teresa of Avila

  Father, Blessing, Comfort

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• I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life.

  Edith Roosevelt

  Blessing, Thinking, Imagination

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• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Blessing, Men, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator. The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of augmentation, considered. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder”, p.120

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• Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Blessing, Government

  "Essay on Mitford's History of Greece" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1824.

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• The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

  Socrates

  Science, Blessing, Way

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• The greatest blessing is that, within all of this, I've still been challenged every day to question and show who I am.

  Jillian Hervey

  Blessing, Who I Am, Shows

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Blessing, People

  "Pastor Rick Warren". 'This Week', abcnews.go.com. April 8, 2012.

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• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life.  She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened.  As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.  But we human beings are not like dogs.  We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble.  If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

  Joko Beck

  Dog, Thinking, Blessing

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