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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
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.]
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal read more
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
In all things it is better to hope than to despair
In all things it is better to hope than to despair
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow
Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.
Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow
Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
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.