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"Serene I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more gainst Time or Fate, For lo! my own shall come to me."
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"Serene I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more gainst Time or Fate, For lo! my own shall come to me."
"Since yesterday I have been in Alcalá. 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."
"Also, there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth anguish of nations not knowing the way out because of the roaring of the sea and its agitation. People will become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken."
"It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do."
"I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]"
"He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."
"Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed."
"There have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome."
"Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits."
"Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation."
"He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how."
"Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were."