244 EXPECTATION EXPERIENCE
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 = Longfellow
| work = Spanish Student. Act I. Sc. 3.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall
never be disappointed.
| author = Pope
| work = Letter to Gay. Oct. 6, 1727. Called
by Pope and Gay "The Eighth Beatitude."
Bishop Hebeb refers to it as "Swift's
Eighth Beatitude." Also called "The
Ninth Beatitude."
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Oft expectation fails and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act II. Sc. 1. L.
145.
There have sat
The live-long day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.
Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 45.
He hath indeed better bettered expectation
than you must expect of me to tell you how.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act I. Sc. 1. L.
15.
Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens
the eyes of expectation: performance is ever
the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer
and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is
quite out of use.
Timon of Athens. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 24.
Expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.
Troilus and Cressida. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 19.
Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it
were.
Sir John Suckling—Against Fruition.
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.
Thackeray—Pendennis.
At the Church Gate.
'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation.
Thomson—Seasons. Spring. L. 160 .
Blessed are those that nought expect,
For they shall not be disappointed.
John Walcot—Ode to Pitt.
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>It is folly to expect men to do all that they
may reasonably be expected to do.
W h ately—Apophthegms.
EXPERIENCE
Suffering brings experience.
JSschylus—Agamemnon. 185.
Behold ; we live through all things,—famine,
thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body,—but we cannot die,
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and
worn,—
Lo, all things can be borne!
Elizabeth Akers Allen—Endurance.
By experience we find out a shorter way by a
long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one
year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham—Schoolmaster.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham-—Schoolmaster.
Oh, who can' tell, save he whose heart hath tried?A
| author = Byron
| work = The Corsair.
| place = Canto I. St. 1.
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
Coleridge—The Ancient Mariner. Pt. VII. Last St.
To show the world what long experience gains,
Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;
But at life's outset to inform mankind
Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
Crabbe—Borough. Letter VII. L. 47.
In her experience all her friends relied,
Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
Crabbe—Parish Register. Pt. EH.
Tu proverai si come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com' e duro calle
Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale. _
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the
savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path
it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
Dante—Paradiso. XVII. 58.
Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
Emerson—Oration. The American Scholar.
Experience is no more transferable in morals
than in art.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Education.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of
mistakes.
Frocde—Short Studies on Great Subjects.
Party Politics.
We read the past by the light of the present,
and the forms vary as the shadows fall or as
the point of vision alters.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman
Republic.
