| Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. -- Thomas Carlyle |
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Carlyle, ThomasEra:
1795 |
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| A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. -- Polybius |
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PolybiusEra:
-204 |
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| "Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow. -- John Gay |
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Gay, JohnEra:
1685 |
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| You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. -- Terence |
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TerenceEra:
-195 |
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| In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. -- Titus Livius Livy |
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Livy, Titus LiviusEra:
-59 |
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| Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all! -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author:
Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra:
1809 |
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| Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. -- Arthur Schopenhauer |
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Schopenhauer, ArthurEra:
1788 |
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| To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Author:
Stevenson, Robert LouisEra:
1850 |
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| Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. -- Hebrews |
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HebrewsEra:
50 |
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| Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. -- Thomas Carlyle |
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Carlyle, ThomasEra:
1795 |
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| hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. -- Arabian Proverb |
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Proverb, ArabianEra:
0 |
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| The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. -- Oliver Goldsmith |
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Goldsmith, OliverEra:
1728 |
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| The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. -- Jean B. Moliere |
| Author:
Moliere, Jean B.Era:
1622 |
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| hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. -- Ben Jonson |
| Author:
Jonson, BenEra:
1572 |
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| He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes. -- Seneca |
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SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. -- Philip D. Stanhope |
| Author:
Stanhope, Philip D.Era:
1584 |
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| Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination. -- George Catlett Marshall |
| Author:
Marshall, George C.Era:
1880 |
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| Great hopes make great men. -- Thomas Fuller |
| Author:
Fuller, ThomasEra:
1654 |
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| Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. -- Bertrand Russell |
| Author:
Russell, BertrandEra:
1872 |
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| Life may change, but it may fly not; hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Author:
Shelley, Percy ByssheEra:
1792 |
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| This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. -- Robert Herrick |
| Author:
Herrick, RobertEra:
1591 |
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| hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray. -- Oliver Goldsmith |
| Author:
Goldsmith, OliverEra:
1728 |
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| There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. -- George Eliot |
| Author:
Eliot, GeorgeEra:
1819 |
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| I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it. -- Will Rogers |
| Author:
Rogers, WillEra:
1879 |
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