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expectation

«If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life? that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment? that would be the perfect state.»
«High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.»
«Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.»
«Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.»
«Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion»
«It is important not to have the unrealistic expectation that we will find a magic key to help get rid of all suffering. It takes determination, patience, and more than one week.»
«How can people hold these opinions? What joy can we find in the expectation of nothing but hopeless misery? What reason for boasting that we are in impenetrable darkness? And how can it happen that the following argument occurs to a reasonable man?»
«Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.»
«It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation»
«He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.»

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