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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."
"Expectations create and shape reality."
"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.)"
"Expect nothing but be ready for everything."
"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."
"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
"Live without expectations. Don't set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life's treasures."
"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
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"God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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