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I shall see
The hour of death draw near to me,
Hope, blossoming within my heart,
(William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), U.S. poet. To the Fringed Gentian (l. 17-19). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Here reign the simplicity and purity of a primitive age, and a health and hope far remote from towns and cities.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "A Winter Walk" (1843), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 171, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
(Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), U.S. author. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906).)
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I hope that you live on good terms with yourself and the gods.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, February 16, 1843, to Ralph Waldo Emerson, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 62, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry VI, Part 2, act 2, sc. 3, l. 24-5.)
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And thou wert still a hope, a love;
Still longed for, never seen.
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. To the Cuckoo (l. 23-24). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.)
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I hope to "stand firm" enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
(Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), U.S. president. letter to Zachariah Chandler, Nov. 20, 1863. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7, p. 24, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).)
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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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