A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

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.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

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.

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.

I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me,
If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.

I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me,
If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
[It., Lasciate ogni speranza ch'entrate.]

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
[It., Lasciate ogni speranza ch'entrate.]

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!