“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
“Maybe we benefit from the providence of others more often than we know.”
“Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.”
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ”