I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to. . . But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.
Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.