To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.
Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.
When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.
Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.
The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.
It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep
Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.
Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.
Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw The blind to hide the garden, where the moon Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon. And I do lift my aching arms to you, And I do lift my anguished, avid breast, And I do weep for very pain of you, And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest.
It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.
Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason.
