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Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too: Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

"Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.

Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.

Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!

Until death all is life.

With life many things are remedied.

I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

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

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.