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Anticipation Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
- The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or…
- Hope is necessary in every condition.
- Hope is itself a species of happiness...
- The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes…
- Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made…
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made…
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; whenwe have made it,…
More Anticipation Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never… — Francis Beaumont
- Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure,… — Dirk Benedict
- He who matures early lives in anticipation. — Theodor Adorno
- There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen… — Josh Billings
- What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
- No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. — Hal Borland
- There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht
- I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. — George Burns
- If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. — Dale Carnegie