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HOPE
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His honor rooted in dishonor stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

TennysonIdyls of the King. Lancelot and Elaine. L. 886.


The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

Woodrow WilsonSpeech. Jan. 29, 1916.


HOPE

Know then, whatever cheerful and serene
Supports the mind, supports the body too:
Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel
Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.

John ArmstrongArt of Preserving Health. Bk. IV. L. 310.


Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

John ArmstrongArt of Preserving Health. Bk. IV. L. 318.


It is to hope, though hope were lost.
Mrs. Barbauld—Come here, Fond Youth.


For the hopes of men have been justly called
waking dreams.
Basil, Bishop of G«:sarea. (About 370)
Letter to Gregory of Nazianzus. Found in
A. Von Humboldt's Cosmos.
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Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
Bickerstapf—Love in a Village. Act I. Sc. 1.
L. 1.


The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Alfred Bunn—Bohemian Girl.


Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
Burns—Cotter's Saturday Night. St. 16.


Hope, withering, fled—and Mercy sighed farewell.
 | author = Byron
 | work = Corsair. Canto I. St. 9.
n Farewell!
For in that word that fatal word,—howe'er
We promise, hope, believe,—there breathes despair.
Byron—Corsair. St. 15.


Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow
Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.
CAMPBELii—Pleasures of Hope. Pt. I. L. 45.


Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind.
But leave,—oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
Campbell—Pleasures of Hope. Pt. II. L. 375.


Con la vida muchas cosas se remedian.
With life many things are remedied.
(While there's life there's hope.)
Cervantes
 | work = Don Quixote.
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Hasta la muerte todo es vida.
Until death all is life.
(While there's life there's hope.)
Cervantes
 | work = Don Quixote.
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HOPE
 
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me,
If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
Wm. Ellery Channing—A Poet's Hope. St.
13.


Mgcoto dum anima est, spes est.
To the sick, while there is life there is
hope.
Cicero—Epistohe Ad Atticum. IX. 10.
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 | text = <poem>Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis
spes.
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
Cicero—Oratio Pro Ammo MiUme. XVI.


Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
Coleridge—Work Without Hope. St. 2.


And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her
golden hair.
Collins—Ode on the Passions. L. 3.


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!
Collins—Ode on the Passions. L. 29.


Hope! of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley—The Mistress. For Hope.


Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate.
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here
Dante—Inferno. III. 1. 9.


Senza speme vivemo in desio.
Still desiring, we live without hope.
Dante—Inferno. IV. 42.


You ask what hope is. He (Aristotle) says it
is a waking dream.
Diogenes Laertius. Bk. V. 18. Ascribed
to Pindar by Stobjeus—Sermon CJX; to
Plato by jElian—Var. Hist. XIII. 29.
 | seealso = (See also {{sc|Basil)
 Hopes have precarious life.
They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer
off
In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
George Eliot—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III.


While there is life there's hope (he cried,)
Then why such haste?—so groan'd and died
Gay—The Sick Man and The Angel.
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 | text = <poem>Bei so grosser Gefahr kommt die leichteste
Hoff nung in Anschlag.
In so great a danger the faintest hope
should be considered.
Goethe—Egmont. II.