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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. The hopes of one are set against the hopes of another. Religion vs. Religion with hidden hands. This destroys all of our hopes as we're set against ourselves as humans. He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work. I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope. I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they wont. 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. Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you. There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do. To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last -- but eat you he will. 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. War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason; and if any thing is to be hoped, every thing ought to be tried. All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life. Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God. People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. 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. The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. 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. The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. I hope I never get so old I get religious. The person who lives by hope will die by despair. Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. Freedom is the last, best hope of earth. Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. Abandon all hope, you who enter here! Hope is a waking dream. Hope is the dream of a waking man. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. Hope is the parent of faith. Hope is the best part of our riches. Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Where there is no vision, there is no hope. To the sick, while there is life there is hope. To live without Hope is to Cease to live. He that lives upon hope will die fasting. If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. In all things it is better to hope than to despair. Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Amateurs hope, professionals work. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Hope and fear are inseparable. With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. Where no hope is left, is left no fear. The safest hope is in heaven. Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. He who does not hope to win has already lost. Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. Quit not certainty for hope. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Hope is the dream of a soul awake. He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope. Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy. Were it not for hope the heart would break. My only hope lies in my despair. Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin. Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth... Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing. The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. He who has never hoped can never despair.
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