We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. Balzac.
We expect a bright to-morrow; / All will be well. / Faith can sing through days of sorrow, / All, all is well. Peters.
We expect everything, and are prepared for nothing. Mme. Swetchine.
We expect in letters to discover somewhat 45 of a person's real character. It is childish indeed to expect that we are to find the whole heart of the author unveiled.... Still as letters from one friend to another make the nearest approaches to conversation, we may expect to see more of a character displayed in these than in other productions which are studied for public view. Blair.
We expect old men to be conservative, but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral-bell is already rung. Ward Beecher.
We fail? / But screw your courage to the sticking-place, / And we'll not fail. Macb., i. 7.
We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. Landor.
(We) feel that life is large, and the world small, / So wait till life have passed from out the world. Browning.
We find God twice—once within, once without 5 us; within us as an eye, without us as a light. Jean Paul.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Schopenhauer.