Blessed

Famous quotes containing the word blessed:

    “There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “And Cumhal saw like a drifting smoke
    All manner of blessed souls,
    Women and children, young men with books,
    And old men with croziers and stoles.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
    had she not seemed so herself.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)