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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 108) Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 633) All things, said an ancient saw, may be hoped for by a man as long as he lives. [Fr., Toutes choses, disoit un mot ancien, sont esperables a un homme, pendant qu'il vit.] - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays (bk. II, ch. III) Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive. - James Montgomery, The World before the Flood (canto V) That star on life's tremulous ocean. - Thomas Moore Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. - Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh--Fire Worshippers Hope is our life when first our life grows clear, Hope and delight, scarce crossed by lines of fear: Yet the day comes when fain we would not hope-- But forasmuch as we with life must cope, Struggling with this and that--and who knows why? Hope will not give us up to certainty, But still must bide with us. - William Morris (1) With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope. - William Mountford (1) What can we not endure, When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure? - Nabb Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. - Alfred Nobel For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope? - Joyce Carol Oates, Ugly Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. - Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee) My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Heroides (XVIII, 178) Hope does not disappoint. - Saint Paul (originally Saul) ("Apostle to the Gentiles") Things which you don't hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed. [Lat., Nam multa praeter spem scio multis bona evenisse, At ego etiam qui speraverint, spem decepisse multos.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Rudens (II, 3, 69) Hope is a working-man's dream. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 95) Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 273) Hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior For hope is but the dream of those that wake! - Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World (bk. III, l. 102) Our hopes, like tow'ring falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight. - Matthew Prior, To Hon. Charles Montague Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake. [Lat., Et spes inanes, et velut somnia quaedam, vigilantium.] - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) VI, 2, 27 Displaying page 6 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9
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