Quote by John Dryden
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, peo

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. – John Dryden

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. – John Dryden

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Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son. – John Dryden

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I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasnt there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope. – Liam Neeson

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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. – Jim Henson

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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. – Howard Mumford Jones

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I dont know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. – Joel Osteen

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