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"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."
"Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn"
"Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?"
"Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness."
"Hope is many things, but it throws itself against fact and shatters."
"Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and hope."
"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."
""Hope" is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all — And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard — And sore must be the storm — That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm —"
"“As time progresses,” Lump stated, “people learn. That’s the only hope.”"
"Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
"When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why."
"Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure."
"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!"
"And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair."
"Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live."
"As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the Gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life."
"Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes."
"Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur."
"Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise."
"This is President Anton Chekov of the United Federation of Planets, broadcasting on all emergency channels. Do not approach Earth. A signal of unknown origin has turned our young against us. They have been assimilated by the Borg. Our fleet has been compromised, and as we speak, our planetary defenses are falling. Sol Station is defending Earth as best it can, but we're almost out of time. We have not been able to find a way to stop this Borg signal, and unassimilate our young. But I know, if my father were here, he'd remind us all that "hope is never lost. There are always possibilities." Until then, I implore you: save yourselves. Farewell."
"I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea."
"Hasta la muerte todo es vida."
"Con la vida muchas cosas se remedian."
"There's a hope that's waiting for you, in the dark."
"Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,—oh! leave the light of Hope behind!"
"Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe."
"Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb."
"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence. The least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."
"Farewell! For in that word that fatal word,—howe'er We promise, hope, believe,—there breathes despair."
"Hope, withering, fled—and Mercy sighed farewell."
"Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing."
"The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling."
"Everything passes away — suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes towards the stars? Why?"
"That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man."
"Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."
"I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world."
"Nature has fixed no limits on our hopes."
"Hope! thou nurse of young desire."
"HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one."
"For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams."
"It is to hope, though hope were lost."
"Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm."
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
"I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve."
"Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear."
"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."
"Hope is the dream of a waking man."
"Da locum melioribus."
"The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem."
"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that."