Quotes about anticipation

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"We usually get what we anticipate."

Bristol, Claude M. on anticipation

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"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."

Hubbard, Elbert on anticipation
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"We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting."

Johnson, Samuel on anticipation

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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."

Johnson, Samuel on anticipation

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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."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on anticipation

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"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on anticipation