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Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. Ash Wednesday (l. 1-3). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
(Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. The Infanta, in The Cid, act 1, sc. 2 (1637).
The Infanta wishes to no longer vainly hope to marry a man below her station.)
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
(Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. fragment on free labor (Sep. 17, 1859?). Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 3, p. 462, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
(Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 3, eds. W.J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss (1969). Rambler (London, March 24, 1750), no. 2.)
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Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. Work without Hope (l. 13-14). . .
Poems [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. John Beer, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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Our destiny, our being's heart and home,
Is with infinitude, and only there;
With hope it is, hope that can never die,
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. The Prelude; VI. Cambridge and the Alps (l. 604-606). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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The triumph of hope over experience.
(Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Dr. Johnson, entry, 1770 (1791).
Referring to the remarriage of "a gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage." On a different note, Johnson had stated on another occasion (Sept. 30, 1769), "By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by shewing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.")
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