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• It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

  John Piper

  Heart, Purity, Matthew

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• Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

  Thomas Hughes

  Friendship, Thank You, Self

  "George Edward Jelf: A Memoir". Book by Katherine Frances Jelf, p. 10, 1909.

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• That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sleep, Blessing, Insomnia

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Opportunity, Today, Ordinary

  "Debating The First Latina Supreme Court Nominee". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Birthday, Courage, Individuality

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.98, Library of Alexandria

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• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Love, Christmas, Xmas

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1900). “My study fire: first series”

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• Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

  Usher

  Kids, Blessing, Looks

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• In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

  Dar Williams

  Good Luck, Laughing, Lucky

  Song: Arrival, Album: The Honesty Room

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• Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.

  Puff Daddy

  Faith, Men, Puff

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• I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

  Clayton Christensen

  Vision, Important, Events

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• Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Yield, Blood, Doe

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• God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.

  Ernie Harwell

  Years, Michigan, Thirty

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• The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

  David Hasselhoff

  Talent, Theater

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• I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

  Robin Trower

  Creativity, Able, Feels

  "Robin Trower Interview: Living Out of Time". Interview with Brian Holland, guitarinternational.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

  The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)

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• Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

  John Muir

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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• That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Circles, Proud, Parenthood

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.80, Conari Press

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• I take every opportunity to articulate to others the ways that they have blessed and influenced me. I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity to thank teachers who have influenced me. I encourage everyone to seize opportunities to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Teacher, Encouragement, Sweet

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• Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

  Carolyn Wells

  Giving, Advice, Giving Advice

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

  Russell Simmons

  Inspiring, Success, Encouragement

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Apr 25, 2016

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• I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

  Ned Beatty

  Children, Eight, Talking

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• For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

  Aristotle

  Summer, Men, One Day

  Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.7,1098 (translated by Sir David Ross).

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• Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Expect Nothing, Disappointed

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.367

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• How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

  Bram Stoker

  Dream, Sweet, Fear

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.537, Delphi Classics

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• Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

  E. O. Wilson

  Enemy, Energy, Debt

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