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    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.

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The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

by Eli Khamarov Found in: Expectation Quotes,
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Expectation Quotes,
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Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of
expectation. Performance is ever duller for read more

Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of
expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in
the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is
quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable;
performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great
sickness in his judgment that makes it.

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Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

by Benjamin Disraeli Found in: Expectation Quotes,
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He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."

He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."

by Benjamin Disraeli Found in: Expectation Quotes,
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I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my read more

I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.

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He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the
figure of a lamb the feats read more

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the
figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed bettered
expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world read more

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

by Fritz Perls Found in: Expectation Quotes,
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What else remains for me?
Youth, hope and love;
To build a new life on a ruined read more

What else remains for me?
Youth, hope and love;
To build a new life on a ruined life.

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