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Quotes about Hope


Exiles feed on hope.

Aeschylus

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

Plautus

While the sick man has life there is hope.

Cicero.

Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake.

Quintilian

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."

Diogenes Laërtius

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Diogenes Laërtius

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

By robbing Peter he paid Paul, ... and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.

François Rabelaisc

Apoplexie and lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

My lovely living boy,
My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.

Blaise Pascal

Who in life's battle firm doth stand
Shall bear hope's tender blossoms
Into the silent land!

J. Gvon Salis

I 'm growing old, I'm sixty years;
I 've labored all my life in vain.
In all that time of hopes and fears,
I 've failed my dearest wish to gain.
I see full well that here below
Bliss unalloyed there is for none
My prayer would else fulfilment know--
Never have I seen Carcassonne!

Gustave Nadaud

Life is the apprenticeship to progressive renunciation, to the steady diminution of our claims, of our hopes, of our powers, of our liberty.

Henri Frédéric Amiel

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

Old Testament

The righteous hath hope in his death.

Old Testament

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Old Testament

Prisoners of hope.

Old Testament

Who against hope believed in hope.

New Testament

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

New Testament

We have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.

New Testament

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

New Testament

Hope to the end.

New Testament

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.

Book of Common Prayer

On God: He scatters grace liberally and arbitrarily, so all men may hope.

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