Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Ch, 4 (1879); comparable to. James Russell Lowell 1871: Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. https://books.google.de/books?id=YRmn-_vXZ58C&pg=PA102&dq=persuaded
“Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Speech at the banquet for Grand Duke Alexis, 11 November 1871 at the Revere House Hotel in Boston, p. 102 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=YRmn-_vXZ58C&pg=PA102&dq=persuaded <br class="br">Cf. George Eliot 1879: Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact
“Blessings come from a generous heart. Those who give are the most blessed.”
Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader
Sydney, (9 June 2011)[citation needed].
Charles Dodgson (archdeacon) (1800–1868) Anglican clergyman, scholar
The Works of Tertullian (1842), pp. xvii-xviii
“Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 29.
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress
"I want everything" in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Context: The cynic says "blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." I say "blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can't always be disappointed."
“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Letter, written in collaboration with John Gay, to William Fortescue (23 September 1725).
A similar remark was made in a letter to John Gay (16 October 1727): "I have many years magnify'd in my own mind, and repeated to you a ninth Beatitude, added to the eight in the Scripture: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Variant: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Context: "Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth.
“The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.”
Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
62
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
“True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.”
Claude Bernard (1813–1878) French physiologist
Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. IV (1928)
