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What is Hope? a star that gleaming Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain, 1891 When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. ~Author Unknown If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~Eric Bentley I will never willingly destroy a solitary human hope. ~Robert G. Ingersoll Hope is a choice of courage. ~Terri Guillemets Here's to Hope! — the child of Care, And pretty sister of Despair, Here's hoping that Hope's children shan't Take after their Grandma or Aunt! ~Oliver Herford, c.1903 It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~Thomas Hardy Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ~Norman Cousins Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~Don Quixote Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson It's all one thing — both tend into one scope - To live upon Tobacco and on Hope, The one's but smoke, the other is but wind. ~Sir Robert Aytoun of Kincaldie, "Sonnet on Tobacco" HOPE.—A Phœnix singing upon its funeral pile. ~"A Chapter of Definitions," Daily Crescent, 1848 June 23rd Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams. ~S.A. Sachs 'Tis a wreath of sunny flowers; On the future's brow it twines; Culled in love's own roseate bowers, Fresh with sparkling dew it shines. ~R.A.P., "Hope," in Southern Literary Messenger, December 1840 The wings of hope belong to a dove best left to fly free. ~Taylor Schwab, May 2011 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter We make our lives out of chaos and hope. And love. ~Bones, "Mother and Child in the Bay," original airdate 2006 September 6th, spoken by the character Angela Montenegro, writing credits S.Nathan, H.Hanson, K.Reichs, and N.Hawley Hope is a roving gypsy With laughter on her tongue, And the blue sky and sunshine Alone, can keep her young; And year by year she lingers Under a budding tree... ~Dora Read Goodale, "The Chorus," in Country Life in America: A Magazine for the Home-maker, the Vacation-seeker, the Gardener, the Farmer, the Nature-teacher, the Naturalist, April 1902 Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope. ~Maya Angelou Hope deceives more men than cunning does. ~Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746 Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future... ~Bayard Taylor, "First Evening" Hope is a great perspective picture-painter, whose work appears dauby and unfinished when submitted to Reason's close inspection. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Seven Seventy Seven Sensations, 1897 Hope is much like a cat in the Dark — you only know it's there by the reflection of its eyes — which means there is Light nearby. ~Terri Guillemets Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles Hope is the lone bloom in the desert. ~Terri Guillemets Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. ~Ouida Hope! — Hope is the very beat of our hearts. Love! — Love is the very beat of our hearts. Rejoice! — Joy is the very beat of our hearts. Live! — Life is the very beat of our hearts. ~Terri Guillemets, "Very," 2000 It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ~Eric Hoffer Hope is a strange invention – A Patent of the Heart – In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.... ~Emily Dickinson, c.1877 To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck Let hope be your pulse Faith in every heartbeat Joy with every breath... ~Terri Guillemets Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Hope is but the dream of those who wake. ~Matthew Prior Hope is grief's best music. ~Author unknown ...the fairy dust of poetry and glittery hope of dreams... ~Terri Guillemets There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~Baruch Spinoza Hope peers beyond the sunset gate, And sees heaven ope, with clearest eye; In Sorrow's sombre vale we wait, Till Love translates us to the sky... ~Luther G. Riggs, "Hope and Fear," c.1884 [Riggs was an editor and the poet-paragrapher of the Chicago Daily Sun. He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God. ~Charles L. Allen Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Hope is warmth against the cold winter of adversity. ~Terri Guillemets Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have. ~Author unknown Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~George Weinberg The birds of hope are everywhere, listen to them sing. ~Terri Guillemets Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. ~Author Unknown Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~Lin Yutang Hope is the silver lining of dreams. ~Terri Guillemets Hope is the poor man's bread. ~Gary Herbert We hope with every breath. We love with every smile. ~Terri Guillemets, "Relative distance," 2005 Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. ~Victor Hugo Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ~Robert Ingersoll I still believe in some faraway place where it's all okay. ~Terri Guillemets, "Beyond the horizon," 1989
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