She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
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Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
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Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
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If you force the trail to emerge and turn with your every command, then most likely it will only become what you imagined. If you just enjoy the anticipation of each new curve and seize it as it comes, the road around the bend might lead to the unimaginable.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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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.
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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
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No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
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In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result, but a greate...
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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
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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.
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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...
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