Quotes About Hope

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.

There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

They say miracles are past.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.

And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd,That palter with us in a double sense;That keep the word of promise to our earAnd break it to our hope.

What though the mast be now blown overboard,The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?Yet lives our pilot still.

Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days.

Two lads that thought there was no more behindBut such a day tomorrow as today,And to be boy eternal.

The lark, the herald of the morn.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,That I would set my life on any chance,To mend it or be rid on 't.

Your heart's desires be with you!

Now, God be prais'd, that to believing soulsGives light in darkness, comfort in despair!

So part we sadly in this troublous world,To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.

True is it that we have seen better days.

Men that hazard allDo it in hope of fair advantages:A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

And my ending is despair,Unless I be reliev'd by prayer,Which pierces so that it assaultsMercy itself and frees all faults.

Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again?

O! for a horse with wings!

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

To purge melancholy.

Like one that stands upon a promontory,And spies a far-off shore where he would tread,Wishing his foot were equal with his eye.

We have seen better days.