Quotations About / On: HOPE

  • 1.
    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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  • 2.
    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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  • 3.
    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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  • 4.
    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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  • 5.
    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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  • 6.
    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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  • 7.
    Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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  • 8.
    Hope likes justification, but can do without.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  • 9.
    Fortune now
    To my heart's hope!
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Prince of Arragon, in The Merchant of Venice, act 2, sc. 9, l. 19-20. Hoping for good luck in choosing the right casket.)
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  • 10.
    Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
    (Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881), Swiss philosopher, poet. Journal Intime, entry for January 23, 1881 (1882), trans. by Mrs. Humphry Ward (1892).)
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