John Gay's Quote - The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up

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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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Shadow owes its birth to light. – John Gay

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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. – 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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I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what Im singing. It comes down to being believable. You dont have to be likeable generally, though, I think I am. – John Mayer

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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I dont believe in people just hoping. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. – Elie Wiesel

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And if theres any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if theres any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara. – Phil Ochs

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Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. – Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying “Amen” to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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