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— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost."
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There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.
— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
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By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandering into those retired parts of eternity when the heavens and earth shall be no more.
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