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Time is a great teacher,
Who can live without hope?
(Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), U.S. poet. The People, Yes (l. 76-77). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
(Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. Moby Dick, ch. 7 (1851).)
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We have much to hope from the flowers.
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), British author. Sherlock Holmes, in "The Naval Treaty," The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1892).)
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Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace but a peace I hope with honour.
(Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Quoted in Times (London, July 17, 1878).
Remark on returning from the Berlin Congress convened to resolve the European crisis (the "Eastern Question"). See John Russell's comment on "peace." The words "peace with honour" were used by Neville Chamberlain in 1938. See Chamberlain's comment on "World War II.")
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I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.
(Franηois Mauriac (1885-1970), French author. quoted in Newsweek (New York, Nov. 20, 1989).)
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
(Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899), U.S. lawyer, orator. Speech, Manhattan Liberal Club. Truth-Seeker (February 28, 1892).)
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To fight without hope is to fight with grace,
The self reconstructed, the false heart repaired.'
(Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968), British poet. To a Conscript of 1940 (l. 32-33). . .
Oxford Book of War Poetry, The. Jon Stallworthy, ed. (1984) Oxford University Press.)
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He who plants a tree
Plants a hope.
(Lucy Larcom (1826-1893), U.S. poet. "Plant a Tree," st. 1.)
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