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Expect Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the…
- We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
- To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
- Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
- As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms…
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