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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 it, the
next wish is to change again.
Our desires always disappoint
us; for though we meet with
something that gives us
satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly
answers our expectation.
There is no terror in a bang,
only in the anticipation of it.
Keeping a little ahead of
conditions is one of the
secrets of business, the
trailer seldom goes far.
If pleasures are greatest in
anticipation, just remember that
this is also true of trouble.
I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.
Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.