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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
Source: Waiting
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"Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir,
And sighs for sables which he must not wear.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Lara (canto I, st. 3)
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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
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. XI)
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I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
[Motto of Vraibleusia.]
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Popanilla (ch. VII)
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He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Tancred (bk. III, ch. VI)
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Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Tancred (bk. IV, ch. VIII)
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What else remains for me?
Youth, hope and love;
To build a new life on a ruined life.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Masque of Pandora--In the Garden (pt. VIII)
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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
Source: Spanish Student (act I, sc. 3)
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Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be
disappointed.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: in a letter to Gay
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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
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at II, i)
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I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Troilus at III, ii)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Marullus at I, i)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Painter at V, i)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Messenger at I, i)
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'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
Author: Sir John Suckling
Source: Against Fruition
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Although I enter not,
Yet round about the spot
Ofttimes I hover;
And near the sacred gate,
With longing eyes I wait,
Expectant of her.
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Source: Pendennis--At the Church Gate
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'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Seasons--Spring (l. 160)
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Blessed are those that nought expect,
For they shall not be disappointed.
Author: John Walcot
Source: Ode to Pitt
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It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be
expected to do.
Author: Archbishop Richard Whately
Source: Apophthegms
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