We never see what we are afraid of

I have been reading the works of Phenius Parkhurst Quimby, the father of New Thought. There is a quote from his manuscripts that reads…

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

Phineus Parkhurst Quimby