Blessedness Quote by William C. Bryant

“Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.”

William C. Bryant

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The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.

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The victory of endurance born.

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Features, the great soul's apparent seat.

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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

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Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They…

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Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down…

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But Winter has yet brighter scenes-he boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods All flushed with…

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There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way.

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Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his…

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And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.

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A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour, Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,…

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The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

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“Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at the moment when…

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Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all…

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Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

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