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• People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Rights, People

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• Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Hero, Men, Imagination

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• There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, God, Humor

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• The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Despair, Life Journey, Destination

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2003). “The Fall of Atlantis”, p.391, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Hopeful, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.36

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• Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
  Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

  John Armstrong

  Evil, Lasts, Spares

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.60

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• True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

  William Shakespeare

  Wings

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

  Erik Erikson

  Life, Insightful, Alive

  "Insight and Responsibility".

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

  Epictetus

  Life, Niece, Philosophical

  Epictetus, George Long (2004). “Enchiridion”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Endeavor, No Hope

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 375-78, The Rambler No. 110, 1922.

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• With life many things are remedied.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.43

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• There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Positive, Men, Apathy

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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• Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Motivational, Sweet, Giving Up

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• Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

  Thornton Wilder

  Faith, Fear, Atheism

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
  [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

  Ovid

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• Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

  Norman Cousins

  Independent, Literature, Anticipation

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• I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Meditation, Waiting, Soul

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

  Josh Hartnett

  Believe, Love Is, Things In Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Deceit, Deceiving

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• We live by admiration, hope and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Appreciation, Admiration

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.587

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• Hope itself is 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Excess, World

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.426

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• Hope is a talent like any other.

  Storm Jameson

  Hopeful, Talent

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.364, A&C Black

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• One only hope my heart can cheer, -
  The hope to meet again.

  George Linley

  Cheer, Heart, My Heart

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

  Robert Burns

  Inspirational, Spring, Wings

  Robert Burns, Robert P. Irvine (2013). “Selected Poems and Songs”, p.307, Oxford University Press

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• The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Gone, Brightness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853). “Hyperion, illustr. from drawings by B. Foster”, p.4

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