Hope Quotes

"They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different States."

"We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous."

"If she were more perfect, she would be less interesting."

"If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do."

"It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe."

"It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them."

"No one can be happy in eternal solitude."

"That none deserve eternal bliss I know: Unmerited the grace in mercy given, But none shall sink to everlasting woe That have not well deserved the wrath of Heaven."

"When a lady condescends to apologize, there is no keeping one’s anger."

"You may have as many words as you please, – only I can’t stay to hear them."

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

"And kings crept out again to feel the sun."

"I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless."

"Yes!" I answered you last night; "No!" this morning, Sir, I say!Colours, seen by candle-light, Will not look the same by day."

"No approximate words in a poem."

"For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it."

"We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes."

"I give you joy of our new nephew, and hope if he ever comes to be hanged it will not be till we are too old to care about it."

"Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend."

"The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream — he awoke and found it truth."

"I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking."

"And down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl."

"Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood."

"I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright."

"Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low?"

"Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose, With care his sweet person adorning, He put on his Sunday clothes."

"Sun-girt City, thou hast been Ocean's child, and then his queen; Now is come a darker day, And thou soon must be his prey."

"Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies."

"The lone couch of his everlasting sleep."

"The seed ye sow another reaps; The wealth ye find another keeps; The robes ye weave another wears; The arms ye forge another bears."

"The sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?"

"Twilight, ascending slowly from the east, Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks O'er the fair front and radiant eyes of day, Night followed, clad with stars."

"Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood."

"And now that the hour of departure is appointed to me, this is the hope with which I depart, and not I only, but every man that believes that he has his mind purified."

"Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated."