"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

Addison, Joseph on Hope
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on Hope
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"Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on Hope
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on Hope
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"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

Aristotle on Hope
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"Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore."

Arnold, Matthew on Hope
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"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper."

Bacon, Francis on Hope
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"Hope is the parent of faith."

Bartol, Cyrus A. on Hope
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"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."

Barton, Bruce on Hope
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"There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out."

Becker, May L. on Hope
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal on Hope
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"Hope is the best part of our riches."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on Hope
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"Man partly is and wholly hopes to be."

Browning, Robert on Hope
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"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."

Byron, Lord on Hope
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"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

Carver, George Washington on Hope
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"The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise."

Cervantes, Miguel De on Hope
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"To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably."

Channing, William Ellery on Hope
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Hope
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"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

Ciardi, John on Hope
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"To the sick, while there is life there is hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Hope
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on Hope
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"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."

Cowley, Abraham on Hope
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"The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on Hope
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"Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad."

Dickens, Charles on Hope
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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."

Dickinson, Emily on Hope
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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Hope
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"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on Hope
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"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

Erikson, Erik H. on Hope
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"That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing."

Euripides on Hope
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

Franklin, Benjamin on Hope
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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

Fuller, Thomas on Hope
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"Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed me of heart and hope."

Gissing, George Robert on Hope
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"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Hope
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"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Hope
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"The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success."

Goldsmith, Oliver on Hope
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"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on Hope
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on Hope
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"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."

Hazlitt, William on Hope
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"Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back."

Henley, Don on Hope
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"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on Hope
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