Blessed

Famous quotes containing the word blessed:

“that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world
Is lightened:—”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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

“It were a blessed sight to see
That child become a willow tree,
His brother trees among.
He’d be four times as tall as me,
And live three times as long.”
—Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834)