Quotes for When You Need Hope · Page 65

Quotes to nurture your hope and remind you that better days are ahead.

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“You think me ambitious: ambition, alas! is composed of more rugged materials. If I were ambitious, I should not for so many years have been a prey to all the hell of conscientious…”

— Horace Walpole

“The price of contributing to the greatest literature the world has ever seen is often struggle and penury: art is still too often its own reward.”

— Anthony Burgess

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”

— David Hume

“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to…”

— David Hume

“Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprizes, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human…”

— David Hume

“We have achieved political freedom but our revolution is not yet complete and is still in progress, for political freedom without the assurance of the right to live and to pursue…”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“That which is in a man, not that which lies beyond his vision is the main factor in what is about to befall him: the operation upon him is the event.”

— George MacDonald

“An atheist-laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended.”

— Robert Burns

“Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.”

— Robert Burns

“The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.”

— Robert Burns

“It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.”

— Ben Jonson

“If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.”

— Ben Jonson

“There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”

— Thomas Campbell

“Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow?”

— Thomas Campbell

“Here lies a most beautiful lady, Light of step and heart was she; I think she was the most beautiful lady That ever was in the West Country.”

— Walter de la Mare

“But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare—rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?”

— Walter de la Mare

“Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour—let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.”

— Walter de la Mare

“Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Though one discovery always surpasses another, and though the chemical and physical knowledge accumulated since his time has gone beyond all Lavoisier's dreams, his work, like…”

— Louis Pasteur

“My philosophy is of the heart and not of the mind, and I give myself up, for instance, to those feelings about eternity which come naturally at the bedside of a cherished child…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Young men, have confidence in those powerful and safe methods, of which we do not yet know all the secrets.”

— Louis Pasteur

“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt, and put on the garments of court and palace.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.”

— Romain Rolland

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