Quotes with anticipation

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• An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

  Samuel Smiles
  Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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• Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

  Jeremy Taylor
  British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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• If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

  Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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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. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

  Alfred Hitchcock
  English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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• There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

  Saturday Review 15 April 1978

  Norman Cousins
  American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• anticipation
• consequences
• precursors
• performing
• conscience
• pleasures

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