"Not to anticipate is already to moan."
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"The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality."
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"Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it."
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"A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present."
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"When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe."
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"Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly."
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"Hope is itself a species of happiness."
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"There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation."
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"Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest."
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"Our greatest fears lie in anticipation."
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"We must discover security within ourselves."
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"Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation."
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"Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless."
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"The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory."
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"He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead."
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"Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!"
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"Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise."
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"So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear."
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"Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]"
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"Life is a series of surprises."
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