To see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver stream and greedily
devour the treacherous bait.--_Shakespeare._
~Anticipation.~--It has been well said that no man ever sank under the
burden of the day. It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burden
of to-day that the weight is more than a man can bear.--_George
MacDonald._
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit
itself.--_Herder._
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than
those crowned with fruition. In the first instance, we cook the dish to
our own appetite; in the latter, nature cooks it for us.--_Goldsmith._
We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive
while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations,
not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may
be, not what we are. We outrun our present income, as not doubting to
disburse ourselves out of the profits of some future place, project, or
reversion that we have in view.--_Addison._