Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. — Sappho Copy Share Image
No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He… — Helen Maria Williams Copy Share Image
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Audiences are open to experimentation these days - that's a boon for me. — Shriya Pilgaonkar Copy Share Image
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
And fairy month of waking mirth From whom our joys ensue Thou early gladder of the earth Thrice welcome here anew With… — John Clare Copy Share Image
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate -… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Het was een vergissing vanwege de juf, te denken dat alleen de dingen die in de boeken staan interessant zijn. Ook deze,… — Louis Paul Boon Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and… — Plato Copy Share Image
You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes… — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear,… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
