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Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity. — Fethullah Gulen
The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above… — Charlotte Bronte
Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on… — Aldous Huxley
Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension. — Winston Churchill
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all… — Aristotle
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the gifts have been… — Thomas Carlyle
He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again. — Publilius Syrus
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four… — Desiderius Erasmus
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill. — Jonah Lehrer
There are times when I, without willing it, mount to the height of contemplation; with my will I am drawn down from it because of… — Symeon the New Theologian
The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out… — Bronislaw Malinowski
There is a beauty bestowed in some degree on all God's saints who pray much which is of the same nature and is the most… — James Stalker
Grace is goodness and respect given freely and unconditionally. A sense of divine love and protection bestowed on us when we need strength and renewal.… — Sue Thoele
The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On… — John Quincy Adams
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is… — Seneca the Younger
Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost. — Plato
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied… — Max Beerbohm
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation. — Dean Acheson
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. — Pope John Paul II
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius
The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon… — Pope Benedict XVI
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more… — Thomas Cahill

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