“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.”
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“It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.”
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”
“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”
“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
“I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.”
“I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.”
“Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.”
“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
“At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.”
“Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.”
“I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
“Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”
“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”
“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”
“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
“The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.”
“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”
“Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.”
“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.”
“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.”