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Quote by George Eliot
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness o

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope. – George Washington Carver

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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wifes spirits. – John Gay

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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? – Immanuel Kant

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I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching. – Jenna Bush

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