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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
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!
Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.
Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.
For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.
For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
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.
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
[Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
[Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
Those who wish to sing always find a song.