God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse. - Plutarch
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them. - George Eliot
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. - Aeschylus
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Hope remains when pride is gone,
And it keeps you moving on. . . - Willie Nelson
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Hope is the dream of the waking man. - Aristotle
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The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts. - Steven Wright
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Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. - John Murray
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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. - Thomas Aquinas
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Nothing that is worth anything can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. - Reinhold Niebuhr
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. - Benedict Spinoza
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Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'. - The Count of Monte Cristo
- Alexandre Dumas
