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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
* Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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These are not dark days: these are great days--the greatest days our country has ever lived.
* Sir Winston Churchill
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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
* Antonio Gramsci
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'Tis always morning somewhere in the world.
* Richard Henry Horne
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
* James Russell Lowell
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
* Edgar Allan Poe
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
* Carl Sandburg
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope.
Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
* Voltaire
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
* Oscar Wilde
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
* Virginia Woolf
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