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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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