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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. . -Martin Luther King.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. . -Martin Luther King.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
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.
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.]
Until death all is life.
(Where there's life there's hope.)
[Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]
Until death all is life.
(Where there's life there's hope.)
[Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]
Still desiring, we live without hope.
[It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.]
Still desiring, we live without hope.
[It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.]
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day
do I declare that I will read more
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day
do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and
raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made
thee as the sword of a mighty man.
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hope will cling,
To thought and impulse read more
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hope will cling,
To thought and impulse while they flow,
That can no comfort bring,
That can, that can no comfort bring,
With those exciting scenes will blend,
O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;
But mem'ry is the only friend
That grief can call its own.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-- that is to triumph over old age.
