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“It is to hope, though hope were lost.”
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
“For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.”
- Saint Basil
“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is
a tree of life.”
- Bible
“Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of
many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.”
- Bible
“Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I
declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for
me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against
thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.”
- Bible
“Hope! thou nurse of young desire.”
- Isaac Bickerstaff
“The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To
thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That
can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend,
O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief
can call its own.”
- Alfred Bunn
“Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.”
- Robert Burns
“‘Farewell!’ For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er We
promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.”
- Lord Byron
“Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.”
- Lord Byron
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