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

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

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man

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.

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable read more

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day
do I declare that I will read more

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.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.

Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

Until death all is life.
(Where there's life there's hope.)
[Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]

Until death all is life.
(Where there's life there's hope.)
[Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]