Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet 45 have believed. Jesus.

Blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it. Bible.

Blessed be he who first invented sleep; it covers a man all over like a cloak. Cervantes.

Blessed be nothing. Pr.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor. Bible.

Blessed is he that continueth where he is; here 50 let us rest and lay out seed-fields; here let us learn to dwell. Carlyle.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Swift.

Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat. Thackeray.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation. St. James.

Blessed is the voice that, amid dispiritment, stupidity, and contradiction, proclaims to us, Euge! (i.e., Excellent! Bravo!). Carlyle.