It must be soöPlato, thou reason'st well!ö Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 5, sc.1, l.1^10.

Still nursing the unconquerable hope, Still clutching the inviolable shade.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.211^12.

The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

-Arnold, Matthew
  New Poems,'Thyrsis', l.138^40.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Apophthegms.

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

-Benson, A(rthur) C(hristopher)
  'Land of Hope and Glory'.

Why art thou cast down,O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 42:5.

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

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs13:12.

And Isaid,My strengthand my hope isperished fromthe L: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDLamentations 3:18^19.

But thesouls of therighteous are inthehand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery, And their going from us to be utter destruction: but theyare in peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality. And having beena little chastised,theyshall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Wisdom of Solomon 3:1^5.

Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 4:18.

   Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and havenotcharity,Iam becomeassounding brass, ora tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all mygoodstofeed thepoor, and though Igivemy body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not herown, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians13:1^13.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:19.

Rootless hope and fruitless desire are there; Let them go to the fire, with never a look behind. The world that was ours is a world that is ours no more.

-Binyon, (Robert) Laurence
  'The Burning of the Leaves'.

We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

-Book of Common Prayer
General Thanksgiving.

All my hope on God is founded He does still my trust renew, Me through change and chance he guideth, Only good and only true. God unknown, He alone Calls my heart to be his own.

-Bridges, Robert Seymour
  Hymn.

Liberty lendsus her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  Villette, ch.6.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

-Buck, Pearl ne¤  e Sydenstricker
  What  America Means To Me, ch.4.

There was a laughing devil in sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell!

-Rochdale
  The Corsair, canto1, stanza 9.

Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shriekedöas Kosciusko fell!

-Campbell,Thomas
  The Pleasures of Hope, pt.1, l.381^2.

   Hope ushers in a Revolutionöas earthquakes are preceded by bright weather. 192

-Carlyle,Thomas
  History of the French Revolution, vol.1, bk.2, ch.1.