“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
— Bram Stoker, book Dracula
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“Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Phan Thi Kim Phuc (1963) Child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972
"In Napa, “napalm girl” Kim Phuc shares story of suffering and forgiveness in Vietnam and beyond" in Napa Valley Register https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/in-napa-napalm-girl-kim-phuc-shares-story-of-suffering-and-forgiveness-in-vietnam-and/article_4f9225b8-0938-5509-b69b-abe13479fd4d.html (24 February 2019)
Yann Martel (1963) Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi
Source: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 23
Context: Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, its shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar—the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved. In his entirely personal experience of [languages], English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was music from the streets. Which is to say, stab his heart and it would bleed French, slice his brain open and its convolutions would be lined with English and German, and touch his hands and they would feel Spanish.
“You have lifted a shadow of fear for many families. God bless you and may God bless the victims.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Air Force One phone call https://web.archive.org/save/http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2002-10-25/article/15626?headline=Bush-praises-law-community-for-capturing-sniper-suspects--By-Ron-Fournier- to Charles A. Moose (24 October 2002), as quoted in "Bush Praises Law Community For Capturing Sniper Suspects" (25 October 2002), by Ron Fournier, Berkeley Daily Planet. <br class="br">2000s, 2002
Sappho (-630–-570 BC) ancient Greek lyric poet
Fragment 63 Voigt
The Willis Barnstone translations, Dream
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
