Anticipation Quotes

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

A man heated in talk, and eager of victory, takes advantage of the mistakes or ignorance of his adversary, lays hold of concessions to which he has no right, and urges proofs likely to prevail on his opponent, though he knows himself that they have no force.

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.