“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
Honoré de Balzac
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“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”
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“that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation”
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“Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.”
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“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
Benjamin Franklin