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Letter "E" » Expectation
"Serene I told my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me."
Author: John Burroughs
About: Expectation
"Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir,
And sighs for sables which he must not wear."
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
About: Expectation
"I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of
tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail;
and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting
bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was
his favorite expression."
Author: Charles Dickens
About: Expectation
"I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
[Motto of Vraibleusia.]"
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
About: Expectation
"He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
About: Expectation
"Everything comes if a man will only wait."
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
About: Expectation
"What else remains for me?
Youth, hope and love;
To build a new life on a ruined life."
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
About: Expectation
"Since yesterday I have been in Alcala.
Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,
When that dull distance shall no more divide us;
And I no more shall scale thy wall by night
To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now."
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
About: Expectation
"Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be
disappointed."
Author: Alexander Pope
About: Expectation
"Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits."
Author: William Shakespeare
About: Expectation
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