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  • Hope is a waking dream.
    * Aristotle


  • Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead;
    It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
    * Pierre Corneille


  • Hope is a strange invention--
    A Patent of the Heart--
    In unremitting action
    Yet never wearing out.
    * Emily Dickinson


  • To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
    * Erich Fromm


  • If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
    * Thomas Fuller


  • Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
    * François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


  • Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
    * Friedrich Nietzsche


  • The miserable have no other medicine
    But only hope.
    * William Shakespeare