Blessed Isle

Famous quotes containing the words blessed and/or isle:

“Oh, may she deign to stand at my bedside
When I come to die; and may she call to me
And draw me to her in the blessed place!”
—Petrarch (1304–1374)

“It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man’s busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)