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Many a time and oft
Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
To tow'rs and windows, read more
Many a time and oft
Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
To tow'rs and windows, yea, to chimney tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be
expected to do.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be
expected to do.
I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of
tears, and a declaration that nothing read more
I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of
tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail;
and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting
bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was
his favorite expression.
Blessed are those that nought expect,
For they shall not be disappointed.
Blessed are those that nought expect,
For they shall not be disappointed.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, read more
I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."
He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
