Anxiety

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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety
Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them
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