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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak read more
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
[It., Lasciate ogni speranza ch'entrate.]
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
[It., Lasciate ogni speranza ch'entrate.]
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.
But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair,
What was thy delighted measure?
Still it whisper'd promised read more
But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair,
What was thy delighted measure?
Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,
And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!
