"I've suffered a great many catastrophies in my life. Most of them never happened."
"Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evil which never arrived."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them." -- Josh Billings
"There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality." -- Seneca
"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evil which never arrived."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them." -- Josh Billings
"There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality." -- Seneca
"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."
- Michel de Montaigne
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