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- Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), A Tale of Two Cities
- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951)
- He who has never hoped can never despair.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
- Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. - Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
- George Harrison (1943 - 2001)
- The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
- Edward M. Kennedy (1932 - ), Democratic National Convention, 1980
- America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
- Dinesh D'Souza
- What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Middlemarch
- I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
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