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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels som

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. – Joseph Joubert

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We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. – Joseph Joubert

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No human thing is of serious importance. – Plato

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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. – Pliny the Younger

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When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin #infj

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There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. – Seneca

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