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“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man”
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“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
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“Know then, whatever cheerful and serene
Supports the mind, supports the body too:
Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel
Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.”
John Armstrong Quotes Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 310)
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“Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.”
John Armstrong Quotes Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 318)
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“It is to hope, though hope were lost.”
Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes Source: Come here, Fond Youth
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“For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.”
Saint Basil (Bishop of Caesarea) ("The Great") Quotes Source: Letter to Gregory of Nazianzus, found in A. Von Humboldt's "Cosmos"
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“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh,
it is a tree of life.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XIII, v. 12)
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“Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So
shall thy seed be.”
Bible Quotes Source: Romans (ch. IV, v. 18)
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“Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day
do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and
raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made
thee as the sword of a mighty man.”
Bible Quotes Source: Zechariah (ch. IX, v. 12-13)
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“Hope! thou nurse of young desire.”
Isaac Bickerstaff Quotes Source: Love in a Village (act I, sc. 1, l. 1)
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“The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hope will cling,
To thought and impulse while they flow,
That can no comfort bring,
That can, that can no comfort bring,
With those exciting scenes will blend,
O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;
But mem'ry is the only friend
That grief can call its own.”
Alfred Bunn Quotes Source: Bohemian Girl (Count Arnheim at act II, sc. 3, a song)
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“Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Cotter's Saturday Night (st. 16)
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“"Farewell!"
For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er
We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Corsair (canto I, st. 15)
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“Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Corsair (canto I, st. 9)
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“Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow
Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 45)
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“Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind,
But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!”
Thomas Campbell Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 375)
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“Until death all is life.
(Where there's life there's hope.)
[Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote
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“With life many things are remedied.
(While there's life there's hope.)
[Sp., Con la vida muchas cosas se remedian.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote
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“I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me,
If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.”
William Ellery Channing Quotes Source: A Poet's Hope (st. 13)
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“To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
[Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Epistoloe ad Atticum (IX, 10)
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“The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
[Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Oratio Pro Animo Milone (XVI)
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“Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: Work Without Hope (st. 2)
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“But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair,
What was thy delighted measure?
Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,
And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!”
William Collins Quotes Source: Ode on the Passions (l. 29)
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“And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.”
William Collins Quotes Source: Ode on the Passions (l. 3)
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“Hope! of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.”
Abraham Cowley Quotes Source: The Mistress--For Hope
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