Hope is a species of fear, The Mechanics of Virtue, Matt Berry, aphorism 89

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Hope is a species of fear.  It increases to the precise degree that our chances for success diminish.

One most fervently appeals to Hope when one’s resources are at their lowest, when one is closest to the certainty of hopelessness.  Hope is thus more closely related to hopelessness than to its own proposed object.






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