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Expectations Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a…
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than…
- We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses…
- Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his…
- Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
More Expectations Quotes
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband… — Michele Bachmann
- The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations… — Martha Beck
- Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior… — Carlos Castaneda
- There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm… — Anne Hathaway
- Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a… — Henry David Thoreau