Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.

Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become read more

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair,
What was thy delighted measure?
Still it whisper'd promised read more

But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair,
What was thy delighted measure?
Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,
And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Where there's life, there's hope.

Where there's life, there's hope.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds read more

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Hope! of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.

Hope! of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.

Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.

Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.

With life many things are remedied.
(While there's life there's hope.)
[Sp., Con la vida muchas cosas read more

With life many things are remedied.
(While there's life there's hope.)
[Sp., Con la vida muchas cosas se remedian.]