“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”

—  Benjamin Franklin

As quoted in Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 22.
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Variant: Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

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