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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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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

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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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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

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It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

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We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

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If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

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You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

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Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

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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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We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

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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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Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

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Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.

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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

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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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