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Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and, noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts. - Sir James Fitzjames Stephen Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness. - Alfred Billings Street We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope. - Rabindranath Tagore, Gardener (16) Hope is like the wing of an angel, soaring up to heaven, and bearing our prayers to the throne of God. - Jeremy Taylor Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last--far off--at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (LIV) The might hops that make us men. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (LXXXV) I do not buy hope with money. [Lat., Ego spem pretio non emo.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Adelphi (II, 2, 12) Woe to my wretched self! from what a height of hope have I fallen! [Lat., Vae misero mihi! quanta de spe decidi.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Heauton timoroumenos (II, 3, 9) It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. - William Makepeace Thackeray Hope is the only good which is common to all men; those who have nothing more possess hope still. - Thales of Miletus Hope is the poor man's bread. - Thales of Miletus For the living there is hope, for the dead there is none. - Theocritus, Idyl (IV, 42) Hope ever urges on, and tells us to-morrow will be better. [Lat., Spes fovet, et fore cras semper ait melius.] - Albius Tibullus, Carmina (II, 6, 20) Never give up! it is wiser and better Always to hope, than once to despair; Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter, And break the dark spell of tyrannical Care: Never give up or the burden may sink you,-- Providence kindly has mingled the cup; And in all trials and troubles, bethink you The watchword of life must be,--never give up. - Martin Farquhar Tupper The most wretched have yet hope. - Martin Farquhar Tupper Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises. - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues You burn your hopes. [Lat., Vestras spes uritis.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (V, 68) Such hopes I had while fortune was kind. [Lat., Speravimus ista Dum fortuna fuit.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (X, 42) The hope of all earnest souls must be realized. - John Greenleaf Whittier Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all. - John Greenleaf Whittier, Dream of Summer Hope told a flattering tale That joy would soon return; Ah, naught my sighs avail For love is doomed to mourn. - Dr. John Wolcot (Wolcott or Woolcott) (used pseudonym Peter Pindar), song introduced into the opera, "Artaxerxes" Hope rules a land forever green, All powers that serve the bright-eyed queen And confident and gay; Clouds at her bidding disappear Points she to aught?--the bliss draws near And fancy smooths the way. - William Wordsworth Is Man A child of hope? Do generations press On generations, without progress made? Halts the individual, ere his hairs be gray, Perforce? - William Wordsworth, Excursion (bk. V) Hopes, what are they?--Beads of morning Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spider's web adorning In a straight and treacherous pass. - William Wordsworth, Hopes, What are They? Hope tells a flattering tale, Delusive, vain and hollow, Ah! let not hope prevail, Lest disappointment follow. - Miss Wrother, In the Universal Songster (vol. II, p. 86) Displaying page 8 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9
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