“Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”
Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)
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1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
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Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu'à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.
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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
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“It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear.”
Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter IX, John Maynard Keynes, p. 240
Context: It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their indisputable existence argued more forcibly than any text that something was wrong with the system, the economists wrung their hands and racked their brains and called upon the spirit of Adam Smith, but could offer neither diagnosis or remedy.
“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.”