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Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts

Monday, October 15, 2018

Post #2676

Hope is a willing slave ; despair is free.
—Charles G. Dawes


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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Post #2403

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friday, May 19, 2017

Post #2340

It is charity not to excite a hope, when it must end in disappointment.

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Friday, November 08, 2013

Post #1398

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
—Victor Hugo

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Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Post #1368

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
—Ben Jonson

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Post #1209

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
—Samuel Johnson

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Post #966

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon

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Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Post #396

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
—Bertrand Russell

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Post #331

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
—Francis Bacon

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Post #8

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
—Benjamin Franklin


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