"Those who are apt to go to one extreme, are almost sure to go to the other, which always causes disappointment, either agreeably, or disagreeably." - Brigham Young

Those who are apt to go to one extreme, are almost sure to go to the other, which always causes disappointment, either agreeably, or disagreeably.  These two extremes have caused the Saints much trouble; and some, for want of patience, and a little reasonable thought, have laid the blame of their disappointments in the wrong quarter, and have apostatized from the Church, never thinking the blame was in themselves.

"In the short speech of not more than five minutes, which I delivered in the old Bowery, when that judge publicly insulted this people, there were men and women in the congregation who suffered more in the anticipation of what might be the result of it in future, than the generality of this people have suffered in being actually mobbed.  They could see, in imagination, all hell let loose upon us, themselves strung up, their ears cut off, their bowels torn out, and this whole people cut to pieces.  After they had had time to think, they found themselves still alive and unhurt, to their great astonishment.  They suffered as much as though they had been sent to the bottom of the bottomless pit.  They suffered all this, because I told that corrupt man, that he ought to be kicked out of the territory for his insolence and barefaced presumption.  I know this people have suffered more by the contemplation of trouble, than they have when actually passing through it.

"As they have magnified future trouble almost infinitely beyond its real dimensions, so they have imagined to themselves a greater heaven than they can find in Zion, at its present stage of progression.  You do not enjoy the Zion you anticipated.  That mankind make mistakes in these two ways must be apparent to those who have felt the workings of hope and fear in their nature.  People suffer more in the anticipation of death, than in death itself.  There is more suffering in what I call borrowed trouble, than in the trouble itself.  On the other hand, you have anticipated more Zion, more happiness, and more glory in the flesh than you will ever realize in this mortality.  Those who are apt to go to one extreme, are almost sure to go to the other, which always causes disappointment, either agreeably, or disagreeably.  These two extremes have caused the Saints much trouble; and some, for want of patience, and a little reasonable thought, have laid the blame of their disappointments in the wrong quarter, and have apostatized from the Church, never thinking the blame was in themselves.  Upon these weaknesses of human nature the devil works sometimes very successfully.  But brethren, we cannot escape from ourselves; and while we remain in this tabernacle, our onward course will be obstructed, more or less, by the weakness to which the mortal flesh is subject.  By and bye our bodies will go to their mother earth, and receive a resurrection, and become glorious; then we shall enjoy all, and more than the heart of man can conceive, unless it is inspired by the Holy Ghost.  This will be the inheritance of the faithful."