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Classical antiquity2 quotes
Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle · 240While there's life, there's hope. — Cicero · 49 BCThe Renaissance2 quotes
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. — William Shakespeare · 1597Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most shifts. — William Shakespeare · 1616Age of Enlightenment1 quote
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed. — Alexander Pope · 1733Middle Ages1 quote
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321