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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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"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
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"Expectations create and shape reality."
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"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
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"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
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"Expectation creates the reality."
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"Weren't you alwaysdistracted by expectation, as if every eventannounced a beloved? (Where can you find a placeto keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside yougoing and coming and often staying all night.)"
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"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."
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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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"God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress."
Men

"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

"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."
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"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."
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"Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason."
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"God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again."
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"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together."
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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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"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise."
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"Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities."
Men
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