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QUOTATION: There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man’s life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

Quotations Sophocles. c. 496 B.C.-406 B.C. 1919

Dear Abby Kelley! she lies upon a sick bed now, but surely there are those, beside the bondmen for whom she labored through those weary years, who, remembering what a faithful Mentor she was to their undisciplined natures, will 'rise to call her blest!'

The Woman's Advocate. 1869

Dear Abby Kelley! she lies upon a sick bed now, but surely there are those, beside the bondmen for whom she labored through those weary years, who, remembering what a faithful Mentor she was to their undisciplined natures, will 'rise to call her blest!'

Thrown Upon the World. Part First 1869

Dear Abby Kelley! she lies upon a sick bed now, but surely there are those, beside the bondmen for whom she labored through those weary years, who, remembering what a faithful Mentor she was to their undisciplined natures, will 'rise to call her blest!'

THE WOMAN'S ADVOCATE 1869

Her friends, her neighbours too, do call her blest;

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

8467There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man’s life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

Quotations 1919

3There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man’s life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

Quotations Sophocles. c. 496 B.C.-406 B.C. 1919

In this brief hour, the lover is so thoroughly "blest" as to have but one desire left -- that it should last forever!

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

And yet _Pindar_ tells us [908] that the abode of the blest is a glorious existence, where the sun shines bright through the entire night in meadows red with roses, an extensive plain full of shady trees ever in bloom never in fruit, watered by gentle purling streams, and there the blest ones pass their time away in thinking and talking about the past and present in social converse .... [

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched. [

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862