The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

Oliver Goldsmith
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  1. To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect - Jane Austen

  2. Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself. - Steve Maraboli

  3. Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. - Patricia McCormick

  4. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)] - Stephen Hawking

  5. Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. - Brian Tracy

More Quotes By Oliver Goldsmith
  1. Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

  2. In all my wanderings through this world of care, In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close,...

  3. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  4. I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

  5. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

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