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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.
Author: John Armstrong
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.
Author: John Armstrong
Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 318)
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It is to hope, though hope were lost.
Author: Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld
Source: Come here, Fond Youth
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For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.
Author: Saint Basil (Bishop of Caesarea) ("The Great")
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
Source: Zechariah (ch. IX, v. 12-13)
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Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
Author: Isaac Bickerstaff
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.
Author: Alfred Bunn
Source: Bohemian Girl (Count Arnheim at act II, sc. 3, a song)
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
Author: Robert Burns
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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Corsair (canto I, st. 15)
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Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.
Author: Thomas Campbell
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!
Author: Thomas Campbell
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.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
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.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote
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I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me,
If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
Author: William Ellery Channing
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.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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!
Author: William Collins
Source: Ode on the Passions (l. 29)
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And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Author: William Collins
Source: Ode on the Passions (l. 3)
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Hope! of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.
Author: Abraham Cowley
Source: The Mistress--For Hope
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
[It., Lasciate ogni speranza ch'entrate.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Inferno (III, 1, 9)
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Still desiring, we live without hope.
[It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Inferno (IV, 42)
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The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Author: Albert Camus
Source: None
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age.
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Source: None
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Hope is a waking dream.
Author: Aristotle
Source: None
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Author: Lord Byron
Source: None
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Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: None
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Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Source: None
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"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all- .
Author: Emily Dickinson
Source: None
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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Author: Erich Fromm
Source: None
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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Author: Erich Fromm
Source: None
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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: None
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
Author: Goethe
Source: None
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Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
Author: Häfiz
Source: None
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
Source: None
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Author: François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Author: Arthur Miller
Source: None
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Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
Author: Susanna Moodie
Source: None
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Author: Napoleon I
Source: None
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: None
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: None
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Author: Georges Bernanos
Source: None
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You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
Author: Jean Kerr
Source: None
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CLOVER VEIL
A clover veil..
violets the vale
neith skies cloudclad
or when ultraviolet
sun prevails.
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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