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"I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"When I think back on all the blessings I have been given in my life, I can't think of a single one, unless you count that rattlesnake that granted me all those wishes."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."	Thomas Hardy
"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity..."	Václav Havel
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."	Václav Havel
"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."	Václav Havel
"To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."	William Hazlitt
"If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators."	William Hazlitt
"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."	Lillian Hellman
"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts."	Patrick Henry
"To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish."	Heraclitus
"Hope is the poor man's bread."	George Herbert
"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well."	Oliver Herford
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings."	Carter Hodding
"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Beware how you take away hope from any human being."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon."	Horace
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men."	Zora Neale Hurston
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