Hopefulness:
The following quotes
illustrate the topic's ambiguity. Use these to establish the scope of your
topic--to begin to specify the subtopics that verbalize various differing
opinions on the same issue--to begin to develop a to guide your reading.
"Hope is a waking dream." Aristotle
"Hope is a
good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." Francis Bacon
"When hope
is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly
thereafter." Pearl S. Buck
"To eat
bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."
Pearl S. Buck
"Hope costs
nothing." Colette
"Hope" is the thing with feathers--
That perches on the soul--
And sings the tune without the words--
And never stops--at all--
-- Emily Dickinson
"A woman's
hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them."
George Eliot
"He that
lives upon hope will die fasting." Benjamin Franklin
"Hope is
generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way."
Lord Halifax
"Everything
that is done in the world is done by hope." Martin Luther
"Hope is the
struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her
eternity." Herman Melville
"Hope
springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always (wants) to
be blest." Alexander Pope
"Our hopes,
often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The
miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
-- William Shakespeare
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Faulkner, William. "I Decline to Accept the Decline of Man." The Book of Virtues. Ed. William J. Bennett. New York" Simon and Schuster, 1993. Pages.
Kennedy, Robert. "A Tiny Ripple of Hope." Twentieth Century Speeches.
Ed. Brian McArthur. New York: NY: Penguin Book Company, 1992.
Pages 366-373.
McPhearson, James M. Marching Towards Freedom.
Puller, Lewis B. Fortunate Son. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Civil Disobedience. New York:
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Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Updike, John. "The City." Prize Stories 1983. Ed. William
Abrahams. New York: Double Day Dell Publishing Group, 1983. Pages 141-156.
Wills, Garry. Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders. New York: Simon and
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