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God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.
Billy Graham
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
Saint Augustine
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True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.
Solon
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There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch Spinoza
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Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
Thomas Aquinas
10.
Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
Robert Louis Stevenson
11.
Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.
Philip James Bailey
12.
There is a blessedness surely to be believed,
and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.
Jack Kerouac
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Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.
Ellis Peters