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Oliver Goldsmith

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Hope

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Hope acts like a lure that hides the dangers or problems beneath it. People are often drawn in by hope without realizing the risks or consequences involved.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.