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A loving heart encloses within itself an unfading and eternal Eden. Hope is like a bad clock, forever striking the hour of happiness, whether it has come or not. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) Hope is the ruddy morning of joy. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men. - Theodore Roosevelt Hope dead lives nevermore, No, not in heaven. - Christina Georgina Rossetti, Dead Hope Who in Life's battle firm doth stand Shall bear Hope's tender blossoms Into the Silent Land. - Baron Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis, Song of the Silent Land Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear. [Ger., Verzweifle keiner je, dem in der trubsten Nacht Der Hoffnung letzte Sterne schwinden.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Oberon (I, 27) Hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race. - Sir Walter Scott The sickening pang of hope deferr'd. - Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (canto III, st. 22) Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. - Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (canto IV, st. 1) All things are to be hoped by a man as long as he is alive. ("A very effeminate saying.") [Lat., Omnia homini, dum vivit, speranda sunt.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistles (70) Hope is a very thin diet. - Thomas Shadwell Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair, Our ranks are broke and ruin follows us. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Clarence at II, iii) The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope: I have hope to live, and am prepared to die. - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Claudio at III, i) Farewell The hopes of court; my hopes in heaven do dwell. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii) True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. - William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Richmond at V, ii) Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts. - William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at III, i) Hope will make thee young; for Hope and Youth are children of one mother. - Percy Bysshe Shelley Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam! - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas (semi-chorus I) To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus (act IV, last stanza) But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Revolt of Islam (canto VIII, st. 27) Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci (act V, sc. 4) Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. - Samuel Smiles It is never right to consider that a man has been made happy by fate, until his life is absolutely finished, and he has ended his existence. - Sophocles, Frag. Tyndarus There is no hope without fear, and no fear without hope. - Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza, Ethics (pt. 2, para. 178) Displaying page 7 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9
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