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Know then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too : Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul. C.— JOHN ARMSTRONG — Art of Preserving Health. Bk. IV. L. 310.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.— JOHN ARMSTRONG — Art of Preserving Health. Bk. IV. L. 318.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.— MRS. BARBAULD — Come here, Fond

Youth. Hope! thou nurse of young desire.— BICKERSTAFF — Love in a Village. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 1.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.— BURNS — The Cotter's Saturday Night. St. 16.

But still there clung One hope, like a keen sword on starting threads uphung.— BYRON — Revolt of Islam.

Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.— CAMPBELL — Pleasures of Hope. Pt. I. L. 45.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,-oh! leave the light of Hope behind! What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel-visits, few and far between.— CAMPBELL — Pleasures of Hope. Pt. II. L. 375.

I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.— WM. ELLERY CHANNING — A Poet's Hope. St. 13.

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.— COLERIDGE — Work Without Hope. St. 2.

And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.— COLLINS — Ode on the Passions. L. 3.

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!— COLLINS — Ode on the Passions. L. 29.

Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.— ABRAHAM COWLEY — The Mistress. For

Hope. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.— DANTE — Hell. Canto III. S. 9.

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.— GEORGE ELIOT — The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III.

While there is life there's hope, (he cried,) Then why such haste?-so groan'd and died.— GAY — The Sick Man and The Angel.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. S.— GOLDSMITH — The Captivity. Act II. Sc. 1.

In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs and God has given my share- I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.— GOLDSMITH — The Deserted Village. L. 81.

The wretch condemn'd with life to part, Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.— GOLDSMITH — Captivity. Song.

Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.— GRAY — On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. St. 5.

Thus heavenly hope is all serene, But earthly hope, how bright so e'er, Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene, As false and fleeting as 'tis fair.— BISHOP HEBER — Lines. St. 2.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.— O. W. HOLMES — A Mother's Secret.

In all the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of the plums.— DOUGLAS JERROLD — Jerrold's Wit.

The Catspaw. Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour.— SAM'L JOHNSON — The Rambler. No. 110.

So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud, Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed, Naving thy silver pinions o'er my head.— KEATS — Hope. St. 8.

One only hope my heart can cheer, - The hope to meet again.— GEO. LINLEY — Song.

Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope.— LONGFELLOW — The Children of the Lord's Supper. L. 230.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.— LONGFELLOW — Hyperion. Bk. I. Ch. I.

Who bids me Hope, and in that charming word Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd.— LORD LYTTLETON — The Progress of Love. Hope. Eclogue II. L. 41.

Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IX. L. 633.

What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 190.

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 65.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.— MONTGOMERY — The World before the Flood. Canto V.

Things which you don't hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.— PLAUTUS — Mostellaria. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 71.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 95.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 273.

For hope is but the dream of those that wake!— PRIOR — Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Bk. III. L. 102.

Our hopes, like tow'ring falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight. 0. PRIOR TO Hon. Chas. Montague. Hope dead lives nevermore, No, not in heaven.— CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI — Dead Hope.

Who in Life's battle firm doth stand Shall bear Hope's tender blossoms Into the Silent Land.— J. G. VAN SALIS — Song of the Silent

Land. Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.— SCOTT — Lady of the Lake. Canto IV. St. 1.

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.— S. SCOTT — Lady of the Lake. Canto III. St. 22.

Farewell The hopes of court! my hopes in heaven do dwell.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 458.

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.— Shakespeare — Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 246.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope: I 've hope to live, and am prepar'd to die.— Shakespeare — Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 2.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings: Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 23.

But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.— X. SHELLEY — Revolt of Islam. Canto VIII. St. 27,

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!— SHELLEY — Hellas. Semi-chorus I.

To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.— SHELLEY — Prometheus. Act IV.

Last stanza. Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope. aa.— SHELLEY — The Cenci. Act V. Sc. 4.

Through thick and thin, both over banck and bush, In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.— SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. III. Canto I. St. 17.

Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last-far off-at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.— TENNYSON — In Memoriam. LIV.

The mighty hopes that make us men. C.— TENNYSON — In Memoriam. LXXXV.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.— WHITTIER — Dream of Summer.

Hopes, what are they?-Beads of morning Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spider's web adorning In a straight and treacherous pass.— WORDSWORTH — Hopes, What are They?

Is Man A child of hope? Do generations press On generations, without progress made? Halts the individual, ere his hairs be gray, Perforce?— WORDSWORTH — The Excursion. Bk. V.

Hope tells a flattering tale, Delusive, vain and hollow. Ah! let not hope prevail, Lest disappointment follow.— MISS WROTHER — The Universal Songster. Vol. II. P. 86.

Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong, Man's heart, at once, inspirits, and serenes; Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night VII. L. 1,514.

Mens regnum bona possidet. An honest heart possesses a kingdom.— SENECA — Thyestes. CCCLXXX.

Ægroto dum anima est, spes est. To the sick, while there is life there is hope.— CICERO — Epistolæ Ad Atticum. IX. 10.

Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes. The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.— CICERO — Oratio Pro Animo Milone.

Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest. My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.— OVID — Heroides. XVIII. 178.

Ego spem pretio non emo. I do not buy hope with money.— TERENCE — Adelphi. II. 2. 12.

Spes fovet, et fore cras semper ait melius. Hope ever urges on, and tells us tomorrow will be better.— TIBULLUS — Carmina. II. 6. 20.

C. Speravimus ista Dum fortuna fuit. Such hopes I had while fortune was kind.— VIRGIL — Eneid. X. 42.

Mais sans argent l'honneur n'est qu'une maladie. But without money honor is nothing but a malady.— RACINE — Plaideurs. I. 1.

Tout est perdu, fors l'honneur. All is lost save honor.— FRANCIS I — Letter to his mother after the

battle of Pavia. See CHATEAUBRIAND -Études Historiques. I. P. 128. Das Herz und nicht die Meinung ehrt den Mann. What he feels and not what he does honors a man.— SCHILLER — Wallenstein's Tod. IV. 8. 70.

Nichtswürdig ist die Nation, die nicht Ihr alles freudig setzt an ihre Ehre. That nation is worthless which does not joyfully stake everything on her honor.— SCHILLER — Die Jungfrau von Orleans.

I. 5. 81. Perchè non i titoli illustrano gli uomini, ma gli uomini i titoli. For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.— MACHIAVELLI — Dei Discorsi. III. 38.

L' espérance, toute trompeuse qu'elle est, sert au moins à nous mener à la fin de la vie par un chemin agréable. Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.— LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maximes. 168.

Bei so grosser Gefahr kommt die leichteste Hoffnung in Anschlag. In so great a danger the faintest hope should be considered.— GOETHE — Egmont. II.

Verzweifle keiner je, dem in der trübsten Nacht Der Hoffnung letzte Sterne schwinden. Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.— SCHILLER — Oberon. I. 27.

Wir hoffen immer, und in allen Dingen Ist besser hoffen als verzweifeln. We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair. S.— GOETHE — Torquato Tasso. III. 4. 197.

Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.— DANTE — Inferno. III. 1. 9.

Senza speme vivemo in desio. Still desiring, we live without hope. и.— DANTE — Inferno. IV. 42.