“its healing powers, on a disappointed heart”

“Time, time will heal the wound.”

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”

“…it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected.  She laughed because she was disappointed…”

“A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”

“But it is fortunate,'' thought she, ``that I have something to wish for. Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain. But here, by my carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realized. A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”