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Anger always comes from frustrated expectations

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations

by Elliott Larson Found in: Expectation Quotes,
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'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.

by Sir John Suckling Found in: Expectation Quotes,
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Many a time and oft
Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
To tow'rs and windows, read more

Many a time and oft
Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
To tow'rs and windows, yea, to chimney tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.

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Blessed are those that nought expect,
For they shall not be disappointed.

Blessed are those that nought expect,
For they shall not be disappointed.

by John Walcot Found in: Expectation Quotes,
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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.

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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.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Expectation Quotes,
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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.

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Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

by Benjamin Disraeli Found in: Expectation Quotes,
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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.

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