quotes and hope

Though hope be dying yet it is not dead.
- Dryden

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody.
- Samuel Johnson

We did not dare to breathe a prayer or to give our anguish scope! Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was Hope.
- Oscar Wilde

We ought neither to fasten our ship to one small anchor nor our life to a single hope.
- Epictetus

When our hopes break, let our patience hold.
- Thomas Fuller

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
- Samuel Johnson

While there’s life, there’s hope.
- Cicero

Yet, where an equal poise of hope and fear does arbitrate th’ event, my nature is that I incline to hope, rather than fear.
- Milton: Comus. Line 410