Blessings

Blessings are the infusion or bestowal of something with holiness, spiritual redemption, divine will, or one's hope or approval.

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• Blessings star forth forever; but a curse
  Is like a cloud—it passes.
  • Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Hades.

• A spring of love gushed from my heart,
  And I bless'd them unaware.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798; 1817), Part IV.

• For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
  And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
  • William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697), Act V, scene 3.

• God bless us every one.
  • Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave 3 (saying of Tiny Tim).

• The blest to-day is as completely so,
  As who began a thousand years ago.
  • Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 75.

• The benediction of these covering heavens
  Fall on their heads like dew!
  • William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act V, scene 5, line 350.

• Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed,
  Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes
  Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold;
  How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
  • Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 589.

• Amid my list of blessings infinite,
  Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled."
  • Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night IX, line 497.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 71-72.

• 'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.
  • John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health (1744), Book IV, line 260.

• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;
  Adversity is the blessing of the New.
  • Francis Bacon, Of Adversity.

• Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
  • Deuteronomy, XXVIII. 5.

• O close my hand upon Beatitude!
  Not on her toys.
  • Louise Imogen Guiney, Deo Optimo Maximo.

• To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd,
  In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.
  • Homer, The Odyssey, Book VII, line 95. Pope's translation.

• A man's best things are nearest him,
  Lie close about his feet.
  • Monckton Milnes, The Men of Old, Stanza 7.

• God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim,
  Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall
  Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on him,
  High towering over all.
  • James Whitcomb Riley, God Bless Us Every One.