Quote by Herman Melville
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is peri

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. – Herman Melville

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together. – Jarvis Cocker

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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. – Vaclav Havel

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that still might be. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind. – Rick Perry

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones weve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama

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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. – Mahatma Gandhi

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People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you cant think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can. – Willie Stargell

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. – H. L. Mencken

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