Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Hope is the best part of our riches. Bovee.

Hope is the only good which is common to all men. Thales.

Hope is the ruddy morning ray of joy, recollection 15 is its golden tinge; but the latter is wont to sink amid the dews and dusky shades of twilight, and the bright blue day which the former promises breaks indeed, but in another world and with another sun. Jean Paul.

Hope never comes that comes to all. Milton.

Hope never spread her golden wings but in unfathomable seas. Emerson.

Hope not wholly to reason away your troubles; but do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Johnson.

Hope, of all ills that men endure, / The only cheap and universal cure. Cowley.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; / 20 Man never is, but always to be, blest. Pope.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. Burns.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. Quoted by Swinburne.