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• Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stills

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• Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

  Oprah Winfrey

  Fear, Power, Fearless

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.104, Macmillan

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• The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

  John Green

  Towns, Planning, Pleasure

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.160, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.

  Joseph Addison

  Stars, Sight, Heaven

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• To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Evil, Lost

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• Not to anticipate is already to moan.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Anticipate

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• Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

  Joan Jett

  Nobody Knows, Knows

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2013

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• There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

  Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

  Heart, Arrows, Thorns

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• The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

  Mark Twain

  Reality, Poetry Is

  Mark Twain (1872). “Roughing It”, p.143, Buccaneer Books

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• Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.

  Francis Quarles

  Journey, Expectations, Fruition

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.70

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• Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Fun, Winning

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Merchant Of Venice, All Things

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...”, p.92

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• In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

  Samuel Johnson

  Purpose, Visionaries, Care

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.142

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• Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.

  Carly Simon

  Waiting, Late

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• Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Memories, Self, Giving

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lying, Worry, Misery

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• For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

  John Sununu

  Friday, Monday, Weekend

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• I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with South Africa and the African continent. There shall be many new challenges and opportunities ahead and I look forward to embracing them with great anticipation [on becoming the UK's high commissioner to South Africa]

  Paul Boateng

  Opportunity, Challenges, Roles

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• Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Reality

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wise, Regret, Lying

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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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Power, Expectations

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• Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wise, Successful, Investing

  "Isms" by Gregory Bergman, (p. 105), 2006.

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• I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Holiday, Suspense

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Balls, Reactions

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• Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Important, Never Forget, Parts Of Life

  Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2013). “Three Weeks With My Brother”, p.28, Hachette UK

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