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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

- Zane Grey

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

- George Eliot

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

- Andre Bakhos

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and intention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the actual possession of them, as he proposed to himself in the expectation.

- Andre Bakhos

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

- Andrew Nelson