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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

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Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Bruce Barton

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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.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

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Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Bertrand Russell

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Baruch Spinoza

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.

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He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

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He who has never hoped can never despair.

George Bernard Shaw

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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jesse Jackson

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Hope and fear are inseparable.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Henry Miller

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Francis Bacon

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Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

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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.

Václav Havel

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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Christina Rossetti

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25

Hope is the best part of our riches.

Christian Nevell Bovee

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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.

William Hazlitt

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Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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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.

Dr. Robert Anthony

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Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Jean Kerr

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Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

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Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade

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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Herman Melville

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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.

Emily Dickinson

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

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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.

Joseph Addison

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In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Martin Luther

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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Elie Wiesel

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Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

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Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Ogden Nash

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Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Robert Browning

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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.

Maya Angelou

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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Ovid

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

Epictetus

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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Samuel Johnson

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One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Ezra Pound

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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Quit not certainty for hope.

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

Matthew Arnold

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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.

Charles Dickens

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That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Euripides

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The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.

William Cowper

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The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Oliver Goldsmith

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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Charles Kingsley

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The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

William Shakespeare

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

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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.

Miguel de Cervantes

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The safest hope is in heaven.

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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden

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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

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To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

History and Historians, Hope, Possibilities
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

William Ellery Channing

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero

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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Were it not for hope the heart would break.

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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Immanuel Kant

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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

John Milton

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca the Younger

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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Abraham Lincoln

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

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.

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Hope is a waking dream.

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.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Hope is the best part of our riches.

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

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

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.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

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.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

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.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

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

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

Quit not certainty for hope.

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

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

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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

The safest hope is in heaven.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Were it not for hope the heart would break.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.