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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other posses

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. – Thomas Carlyle

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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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good
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On the other hand, I believe theres hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously. – Kathryn Bigelow

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Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I dont ignore feelings and emotions. – Anne Stevenson

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What we hope to achieve is a society that doesnt value a white man because hes a white man, but also doesnt value a woman because shes a woman, or a black because hes a black. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. – Epicurus

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