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PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.

Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife, Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have place Amid the tumult of reverberant strife 'Twixt ancient creeds, 'twixt race and ancient race, That mars the grave, glad purposes of life, Leaving no refuge save thy succoring face?

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

Someone has said it is better to appreciate the things you don't own than to own things you don't appreciate. I hope we will have with us a spirit of appreciation for all of the good things we enjoy, all the blessings that we have, many of which have come so easy to us, with very little effort on our part, and yet they are very real and very choice and are truly rich blessings.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood.

So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud, Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.

Still desiring, we live without hope.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.

The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout what might be; it offers meaning for us today. Christian hope is founded on certain faith that life is not a meaningless riddle, but a mystery progressively revealed and finding the fulfillment in the redemption won by Jesus Christ and offered to all peoples.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.