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disappointed
«Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes»
Author: George Caleb Bingham
(Artist)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
disappointed, extol, extolled, extolling, praising, tide, vigor
«Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
cynical, disappointed, disappoints, idealist, inside, The Idealists
«It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
disappointed, disappoints, foolish, fully, leave, passion, pretend, recovered, recovering, recovers, scar, scarred, such, The Scar, wounds
«I am sometimes disappointed, but I love my life ... and I must believe that the disappointments contribute something to what I love.»
Author: Jan Denise
(Author, Columnist, Speaker)
| Keywords:
contribute, disappointed, disappointments
«Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Bridge of Sighs, disappointed, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, hardened, interval, marked, narrow mind, nine times, profits, recover, sighs, sorrows, The Bridge, The Bridge of Sighs, the Wrecks, undergone, wrecks
«I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
disappointed, heavenly, Heavenly Father, monkey, The Monkey
«Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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both, curious, disappointed, disappoints, married man, married woman, marry, tired, tire out, tiring, women
«I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
compare, disappointed, expectation, from time to time, instructive, liable, observation, register, registered, registering, registers, The Register
«It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
cures, disappointed, disappointment, effect, exclamation, expectation, expects, other than, peevish, producing, sentence