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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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"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
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"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
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"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
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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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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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"Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be."
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"Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional."
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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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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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"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together."
People
"Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart."
Heart
"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
"Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it."
Anger
"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."
Mind
"Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities."
Men
"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
"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise."
Athens
"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
"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."
Novelty
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