An angel might have stoop'd to see.
And bless'd her for her purity. [ Dr. Mackay ]

The sandal-tree perfumes when riven
The axe that laid it low:
Let man who hopes to be forgiven
Forgive and bless his foe. [ Sadi ]

A heart to pity, and a hand to bless. [ Churchill ]

Live for today! tomorrow's light,
Tomorrow's cares shall bring to sight;
Go sleep, like closing flowers, at night,
And Heaven thy morn will bless. [ Keble ]

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppressed.
In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. [ Homer ]

See daily showers rejoice the thirsty earth.
And bless the flowery buds succeeding birth. [ Prior ]

Like a led victim, to my death I'll go.
And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. [ Dryden ]

He hath never a cross to bless himself withal. [ Proverb ]

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels men rebel;
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the Eternal cause. [ Pope ]

In Faith and Hope the world will disagree.
But all mankind's concerned in Charity;
All must be false that thwart this one great end.
And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend. [ Alexander Pope ]

When pain can't bless, heaven quits as in despair. [ Young ]

Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene;
Resumes them, to prepare us for the next. [ Young ]

Who breathes must suffer; and who thinks, must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd, who never was born. [ Prior ]

I thought to bless myself, and I beat out both my eyes. [ Proverb ]

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, and ever, ever will obey. [ Mrs. Barbauld ]

He's a friend at a sneeze; the most you can get of him is a God bless you. [ Proverb ]

Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave. [ Lowell ]

Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms - oftenest. God bless her! - in female breasts. [ Dickens ]

The primal duties shine aloft like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. [ Wordsworth ]

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. [ Jesus ]

To act with commonsense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is, and despise affectation. [ Horace Walpole ]

Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him. [ Manning ]

How sacred, how beautiful, is the feeling of affection in pure and guileless bosoms! The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable may call it fable, the selfish and dissipated may affect to despise it; but the holy passion is surely of heaven, and is made evil by the corruptions of those whom it was sent to bless and to preserve. [ Mordaunt ]