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  Quotations About / On: HOPE
     

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  Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
 
(H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (18801956), U.S. journalist, critic. A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 617, Knopf (1949).)
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62   

  When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

 
(Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. On His Books (l. 1-2). See Bible: Hebrew on repentance. Norton Book of Light Verse, The. Russell Baker, ed. (1986) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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63   

  Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
 
(Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Anglo-Irish novelist. The Death of the Heart, pt. 2, ch. 4 (1938).)
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64   

  Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
 
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).)
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65   

  someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then) they
said their nevers they slept their dream

 
(E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. Anyone lived in a pretty how town (l. 17-20). . . Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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66   

  I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
 
(Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president. At the Palazzo in Milan, Italy (January 5, 1919).)
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67   

  To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
 
(Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish writer. Sancho Panza, in Don Quixote, pt. 1, bk. 3, ch. 9, trans. by P. Motteux (1605).)
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68   

  I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.
 
(David Lloyd George (1863-1945), British Liberal politician, prime minister. speech, Nov. 11, 1918, House of Commons, London. Hansard, col. 2463. on the day that the armistice was signed between the allied powers and Germany. The war that will end war had already been used as the title of a novel by H.G. Wells (1914).)
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69   

  Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home;

 
(Isaac Watts (1674-1748), British poet. Our God, Our Help in Ages Past (l. 1-4). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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70   

  So much for Mrs. Hollis' nine months of pain and 20 years of hope.
 
(Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Nameless GI, Objective Burma, cutting dog tags off a dead GI (1945).)
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