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AnticipationFound 5 items. Pages: 1sort alphabetically | sort by highest rating  (161 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 Rate this quote: (bad)<  > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (151 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (147 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (136 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 Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website (124 votes) We usually get what we anticipate.Claude M. Bristol 1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing'' Rate this quote: (bad)< > (good)copy to your blog, myspace, or website Found 5 items. Pages: 1 |
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