Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“We do not indeed so often disappoint others as ourselves.”
- Source
- The Idler
- Date
- 1758–1760
Meaning of “We do not indeed so often disappoint others…”
Private expectations can exceed what anyone else demands of us, so a life may feel disappointing chiefly by comparison with unfulfilled plans known only to oneself.
Where does it come from?
The Idler, No. 88; the surrounding paragraph concerns private hopes, proposed tasks and the gap between imagined achievement and lived action.
