Expectations

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Blessed is he that expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Low expectations Managing expectations Expectations

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1739 1730s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

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Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1739.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1739." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

East of Eden

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Topic

Perfection Expectations

Author

John Steinbeck

Source

East of Eden

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. The Viking Press, 1952, ch. 53, pt. 3.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Low expectations Expectations Disappointment

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Letters of Alexander Pope

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1727 1720s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. Letter to John Gay. 6 Oct. 1727.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "To Gay, Twickenham, Oct. 16, 1727." Alexander Pope: Selected Letters, edited by Howard Erksine-Hill. Oxford University Press, 2000, no. 16.

Doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Perfectionism Expectations Accepting others Self-acceptance

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 14.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most shifts.

William Shakespeare

All’s Well that Ends Well

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Topic

Hope Expectations

Speaker

Helena

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

All’s Well that Ends Well

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "All's Well that Ends Well." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "All's Well That Ends Well." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

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Topic

Expectations Entitlement

Author

Margaret Mitchell

Source

Gone with the Wind

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Original Citation

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan Publishers, 1936, pt. 5, ch. 53.

Current Citation

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Scribner, 2007, pt. 5, ch. 53.

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Windfalls Money Expectations

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Letters of Mark Twain

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Letter to Orion Clemens. 23 Mar. 1878.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Letter to Orion Clemens, 23 Mar. 1878. Collected Nonfiction of Mark Twain. Vol. 1, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

If you expect nothing from somebody, you are never disappointed.

Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

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Topic

Low expectations Expectations

Author

Sylvia Plath

Source

The Bell Jar

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Plath, Sylvia [published as Victoria Lucas]. The Bell Jar. William Heinemann, 1963.

Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Brontë

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Topic

Disappointment Expectations

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Villette

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Villette. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853, ch. 36.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Villette, edited by Helen Cooper. Penguin Classics, 2004, ch. 36.

For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required.

Jesus

Luke 12:48

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Topic

Expectations

Speaker

Jesus

Source

Gospel of Luke The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

61 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 12:48).