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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

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Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

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I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

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So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.

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No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

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Compassionate conservative soft bigotry of low expectations.

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I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

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Things never come when they are expected.

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Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?

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It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

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You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

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Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

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