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The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. — Thomas Jefferson

But I must say it has been, in general, a boon not to have been a beautiful woman. Because I was barely looked at, I was free to do the looking. — Anna Funder

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief — Marcus Aurelius

Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press. — Vivian Schiller

Death would be a boon if only it could blot out the memories. — H.P. Lovecraft

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. — Sappho

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. — Sophocles

To Never Have been born may be the greatest boon of all — Sophocles

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving. — Joseph Auslander

Whate'er my doom;
It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me
The boon of resignation. — Woodrow Wilson

Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible. — James E. Talmage

There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief. — Steven Erikson

Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life. — Jane Bowles

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask. — Dwight L. Moody

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers. — J.K. Rowling

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. — Benjamin Disraeli

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi

The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language. — George W. Bush

Maybe it was the novels I read - the racier Mills & Boon romances of late, Danielle Steel instructing me on international sex and sin. — Manil Suri

However, creativity is not so much about efficiency, but rather about inefficiency. — Wouter Boon

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it. — Herman Melville

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect — John Calvin

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. — Samuel Johnson

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste. — Elle Boon

The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot. — Pat Paulsen

And let them pass, as they will too soon,
With the bean-flowers' boon,
And the blackbird's tune,
And May, and June! — Robert Browning

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. — Ellsworth Huntington

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. — Carolyn Wells

Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love. — Emily Dickinson

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions. — Henry Fielding

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. — William Graham Sumner

Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time scale and four a year, and it teaches you a lot. — Penny Jordan

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world. — Maya Angelou

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man. — Yoko Ono

To die before one fears to die may be a boon. — Emily Dickinson

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal. — David Byrne

No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart! — Helen Maria Williams

I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do. — Sara Sheridan

I ask him to join with me in prayer to the God of Truth that He may grant me the boon of Ahimsa in mind, word and deed. — Anonymous

The boon that could be given can be withdrawn. — Seneca.

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. — Lynne Truss

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar. — Carly Fiorina

A hero isn't a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe. — Carlo Arellano

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? — H.L. Mencken

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me. — Mary Roach

A boy who could make his mother feel special inspite of his own ordeals is the boon from God in lieu of some good deed. — Adhish Mazumder

To never have been born would be the greatests boon of all ! — Sophocles

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 — Garrison Keillor

Mills & Boon and Harlequins are like colourful jelly beans, you can't get enough of... — Anne Ivory

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin. — Murray Kempton

It is difficult to establish where the effects of a boon end and the influence of a curse begins. — Devdutt Pattanaik

Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive. — Melina Marchetta

Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon. — John Greenleaf Whittier

It would be a great boon to know where we stand in this world, what is, what has been, what will be. And to know it absolutely. — Stephen R. Lawhead

we ace boon coons forever. — Bernice L. McFadden

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. — Dante Alighieri