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Hope: Mistaking desire for probability.
HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one. Delicious Hope!
when naught to man it left -- Of fortune destitute, of friends beref...
Hope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.
-- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- The Mistress, For Hope...
Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here. -- Young
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come....
Hope that helps. -- Dave Hardcastle, 06 Oct 94
Hope! thou nurse of young desire. -- Isaac Bickerstaff (1735-1787) -- Love in a Village, Act i, Sc.
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Hope to the end. -- New Testament -- 1 Peter i, 13
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell!
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- The Corsair, Canto i, Stanza 9...

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