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William Godwin

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

William Godwin

Future

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William Godwin is saying that our mind is always focused on what has already happened or what will happen next, rather than what is happening right now. Because of this, we cannot form a clear mental picture of the present moment itself.

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