Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by read more

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and 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.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.