Quote#Hope
Hope of course is nothing more than desire with a telescope,…
Quote byRichard Doddridge Blackmore · 1825–1900
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lorna Doone (1869), Ch. 56.
English (original)
Hope of course is nothing more than desire with a telescope, magnifying distant matters, overlooking near ones; opening one eye on the objects, closing the other to all objections. And if hope be the future tense of desire, the future of fear is religion—at least with too many of us.
— Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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