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Wisdom about hope.

What people have learned about hope the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.

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From the library

6 public-domain lines, each checked against its source text

Resilience & Hardship
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
Inner Work
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.