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• We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

  Mamoru Oshii

  Blessed, Blood, Voice

  "Fictional character: Major Motoko Kusanagi". "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

  Rebecca West

  Comforting, Belief, Trouble

  Rebecca West (2005). “Woman as Artist and Thinker”, p.23, iUniverse

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• The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Growth, Age

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three books of Offices: or, Moral duties. Also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Laelius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.249

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• And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Pain, Men, Thinking

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  Health is the greatest of human blessings.

  Hippocrates

  Health, Illness, Humans

  Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”

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• To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Perfection

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• A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cute, Friendship, Thankful

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• Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

  Samuel Johnson

  Choices

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.312, Harvard University Press

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• What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Fake People, Humor

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• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Life, Faith, Gratitude

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.264, Macmillan

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• May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Pain, Comfort, Woven

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.166, Conari Press

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• The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.

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• A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

  Pearl Bailey

  Love, Ambition, Men

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• I just thank God for all of the blessings.

  James Brown

  Thank God

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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

  Blessed, Sleep, Insomnia

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

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• A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1796). “The Spectator”, p.311

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• The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

  Bernard Baruch

  Freedom, Discipline, Democracy

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1960). “Baruch: The Public Years”

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• It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here!

  Glenn Beck

  Real, Foxes, Calvary

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• He had a face like a blessing.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Grace, Faces

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2010). “Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Freedom, People, Liberty

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

  Joel Osteen

  Want, Financial, Abundance

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• It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

  Andrew Young

  African American, Causes, Dies

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• The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

  Hippocrates

  Wise, Food, Health

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• Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Technology, Hatred, Disaster

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