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Quotes About Hope

A Select Collection of Quotes About Hope

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Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all.

Unknown Author
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Alexander Pope
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

Robert Burns
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Matthew Prior
Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

Robert Frost
I always entertain great hopes.

Charlotte Bronte
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

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

Samuel Johnson
In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

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