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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses fo

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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. – Joseph Addison

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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. – Joseph Addison

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I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and its pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living. – Harry Nilsson

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We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon. – Douglas Horton

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I think theres been a decline in the publics access to whats being done with their tax dollars, whats being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired. – Bill Keller

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I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. – Pope John Paul II

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