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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
[Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
[Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which read more
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind,
But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind,
But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most read more
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Hope! of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.
Hope! of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only read more
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope