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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.
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.
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.
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.
He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."
He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."
'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.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope read more
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
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.