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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wifes spirits. – John Gay

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. – John Gay

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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. – John Gay

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The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman

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On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! – Alexander Henry

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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. – Joseph Addison

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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy. – Edith Sitwell

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