Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.
Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.
The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing.
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.
The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.
Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and profound.
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be
Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me.
An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath.
A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
