Anticipation Quotes
These are some of the best 'Anticipation' quotations and sayings.
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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
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All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.
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Be not looking for evil. - Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and intention of mind, he finds not half the pleasure in the actual possession of them as he proposed to himself in the expectation.
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It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burden of to-day that the weight is more than a man can bear.
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It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the anticipation of suffering.
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasant than those crowned with fruition. In the first case we cook the dish to our own appetite; in the last it is cooked for us.
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The worst evils are those that never arrive.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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We often tremble at an empty terror, yet the false fancy brings a real misery.
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We part more easily with what we possess than with our expectations of what we hope for: expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.
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Why need a man forestall his date of grief, and run to meet that he would most avoid?
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