A Quote by William Godwin

Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration is never in all respects equal to the picture we had formed of it. The very uncertainty enhances the enjoyment.

William Godwin

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William Godwin
English - Novelist
March 3, 1756 - April 7, 1836

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