Ninth Beatitude?
The eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope also had some truth when he coined this "ninth beatitude": "Blessed is he who expects nothing because he will never be disappointed".
However, woe betide extinguishing every desire and expectation in the heart, extinguishing every dream: one would also lose the will to live and tear the seed of happiness from the soul.
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