Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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Quit not certainty for hope. – Proverb

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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. – Rene Descartes

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Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. – Bruce Barton

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One must not hope to be more than one can be. – Nicolas Chamfort

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