Even the tops of the mountains are blessed with flowers,dwarf phlox, polemonium, ribes, hulsea, etc.

It is not long, geologically speaking, since the first raindrop fell on the present landscapes of the Sierra; and in the few tens of thousands of years of stormy cultivation they have been blest with, how beautiful they have become!

The man who waits, until he is "fully persuaded in his own mind" will be blessed in following desire, and he will grow in wisdom thereby.

"I am not mad, most beloved and beautiful Eve, but blessed to a degree that might indeed upset a stronger reason.

A man may be very happy and blest in this life; yet he may feel that, however pleasant it is, at root it is no reality, but only a shadow of realities which are eternal and infinite in the bosom of God, a piecemeal pattern, of the Light

If you labour to make yourself good in this life, you shall enjoy the fruit of your labour in the next life by being good, and, therefore, blessed for ever.

"Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

Sure no man e'er was blest with truer friend than thou, my Fidelis; brave art thou, yet tender as any woman, and rather would I have thy love than the love of any man or woman soever, henceforth, dear my friend.

"For that 'tis so my heart would have prompted had I been so blessed as thou art, dear my Beltane.

In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.

Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest, Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest!

Had I been blest by nature's grace, With such a form, with such a face, Could I so treacherous prove?

Whom the Lord has blessed above all, from whom He much expects, because He has given her much.

Ay, Marius, father, friends, more blest than thee!

If we forget that only through his humanity can we approach his divinity, we shall soon forget likewise that his mother is blessed among women.

There was a long pause, and the watcher held fast the little Pilgrim's hand, and betrayed to her the longing in her heart; for though she was already blessed beyond all blessedness known on earth, yet had she not forgotten the love that had begun on earth, but was forevermore.

The kingdom of Judah, blessed on the whole with virtuous rulers, and comparatively free from idolatry, continually increased in wealth and political power.

Blessed through love are the Gods above Through love like the Gods may man be; Heavenlier through love is the heaven above, Through love like a heaven earth can be!

O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

Oh! blest of Heaven, whom not the languid songs Of Luxury, the siren! nor the bribes Of sordid Wealth, nor all the gaudy spoils Of pageant Honour, can seduce to leave Those ever-blooming sweets which, from the store Of Nature, fair Imagination culls To charm th' enlivened soul!

Somewhere in a neighboring thicket a bird trilled out his songa contented, half-hushed song that called his mate to witness how infinitely blest above all other birds was he.

This sentence from my old favorite, Fenelon, was much blest to my spirit this evening, when I had foolishly been thinking about future sufferings.

Except Napoleonor abused it more; You might have freed fallen Europe from the unity Of tyrants, and been blessed from shore to shore.

Most of my readers will remember that which begins, Blest as the immortal Gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee, all the while, Softly speak and sweetly smile.

" He borrows the word "painting" itself,like a true Italian and friend of Raphael and Titian, to express the commiseration in the faces of the blest for the sufferings of mortality "Dipinte di pietade il viso pio."