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A lively collection of 4,000 quotations from contemporary and traditional sources. Perfect for sermon illustration, writing projects, or simply as an entertaining compendium of pithy statements on a variety of topics. Includes sources from A-One (a graffiti artist) to Loretta Young.

Hope is a waking dream. —ARISTOTLE, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers [This has also been attributed to Pindar and Plato.] Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. —FRANCIS BACON, Apophthegms Hope is a risk that must be run. —GEORGES BERNANOS, Last Essays Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. —BIBLE, Proverbs 13:12 Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure. —ABRAHAM COWLEY, The Mistress “Hope” is the thing with feathers— That perches