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"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
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"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
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"When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica)"
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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"Expectation is faith in motion: you expect the things you hope for to happen."
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"We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
Defeat
"The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words."
Men
"Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities."
Men
"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."
Novelty
"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination."
Imagination
"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."
Expectation
"Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure."
Man
"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."
Mind
"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together."
People
"Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason."
Abstinence
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