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- Hope is a waking dream.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
- Denise Caruso, (digital commerce columnist, New York Times)
- All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
- A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. - W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), Collected Poems
- True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Richard III", Act 5 scene 2
- This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
- If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
- Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "Molloy", 1951
- The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
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