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Worry (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the most crafty enemy, not frightened off by noise and racket: one must now work, now wait, now brave it out, now pray — changing weapons with ease, or it wins.

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Worry (n.) about ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠tomorrow's food ends alike for the hungry man, whom death relieves of it, and for the sated voluptuary, whose worry death makes superfluous in judgment.

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Worry (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in every earthly kind, at bottom worry about the next day, made possible because man, compounded of time and eternity, became a self, and with the self came the morrow.

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Worry (n.) about ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠tomorrow is a life sentence: whoever condemns himself to anxiety "for the next day" has condemned himself for life.

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Worry (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not what God brings: it is not "without God no worry, with God worry," but with God no worry, without God worry.

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Worry (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a staring eye, which, as science explains, sees only its own seeing; the cure is the physician's: move your eye, look down at the lily, up at the bird.