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Blessed is the...
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Source: Letter, 6 Oct. 1727, to playwright John Gay. Quoted in: Roscoe, Life of Pope, vol. 10.
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.