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Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by read more
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter read more
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
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.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only read more
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. -Elie Weisel.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which read more
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.
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.]
