Anticipation

(361 votes)   Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(349 votes)   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
1709-1784, British Author

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(335 votes)   Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(331 votes)   We usually get what we anticipate.

Claude M. Bristol
1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing''

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(309 votes)   We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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