"Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him."
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Little Women
by
Louisa May Alcott
"Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope."
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A Woman of No Importance
by
Oscar Wilde
But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.
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Agnes Grey
by
Anne Bronte
Hope clouds observation.
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Dune
by
Frank Herbert
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Bronte
He found that he was still not at all certain that he was doing any good, aside from providing the drug of religious hope to timorous folk frightened of hell-fire and afraid to walk alone.
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Elmer Gantry
by
Sinclair Lewis
God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet.
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Henry VI, Part Two
by
William Shakespeare
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
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The Great Gatsby
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
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Great Expectations
by
Charles Dickens
"The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right."
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Endymion
by
Benjamin Disraeli