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«That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
closed, closed book, expectation, Good Book, opened
«Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.»
Author: Ralph Marston
| Keywords:
appreciate, appreciation, expectation, in return, People Express, sincerely, thank, thank you
«That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Books,
Expectation
| Keywords:
closed, closed book, expectation, Good Book, opened
«Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| About:
Events,
Expectation,
Life
| Keywords:
constructed, event, expectation, match
«Respondent's expectation that his garden was protected from observation is unreasonable and is not an expectation that society is prepared to honor.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
expectation, protected, respondent, unreasonable
«No expectation fails there,No pleasing habit ends,No man grows old, no girl grows cold,But friends walk by friends.»
«Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
answers, desires, disappoint, disappoints, expectation, gives, meet, satisfaction, satisfactions, thoroughly, though, yet
«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 idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
compare, disappointed, expectation, from time to time, instructive, liable, observation, register, registered, registering, registers, The Register
«Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
coldest, expectation, fails, hits, oft, promises, sits
«I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.The imaginary relish is so sweetThat it enchants my sense.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
enchant, enchanting, enchants, expectation, giddy, imaginary, relish, relished, relishes, relishing, whirled, whirling, whirls
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