131 Metaphors for hoping

THEY SAY THAT HOPE IS HAPPINESS.

Her hope is a kind of assurance, her faith a continual expectation, her love an apprehension of joy, and her life the light of eternity.

He waited to hear no more; if he had paused for a moment he might have learned that the hope of twenty-five hundred was an illusion and a snare.

Hope is the chief blessing of man, and that hope only is rational, of which we are certain that it cannot deceive us.

Due notice will be given of the arrangements for exhibiting and disposing of the contributed pictures, to possess some of which, PUNCHINELLO hopes, will be a matter of emulation with his New York readers.

As the bishops and parochial clergy lived apart with their families, and were more connected with the world, the hopes of success with them were fainter; and the pretence for making them renounce marriage was much less plausible.

"My hopes are deadsay this to Mr. Gregoryand

an' can barely drag himself to me table, an' Hope is a tippler, an' Right Hand is getting the palsy.

Lord Bryce still believes in democracy in spite of his keen realizations of its grievous defects, because, as he says, hope is an inextinguishable quality of the human soul.

Grace Hope, whom we will now call Mary Bartley, since everybody but her father, who generally avoided her name, called her so, was a well-grown girl of thirteen, healthy, happy, beautiful, and accomplished.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity: "Durum sed levius fit patientia, Quicquid corrigere est nefas.

"I think hope is ever a better watchword.

Hope and fear are inconstant pleasure and pain, arising from the idea of something past or to come, concerning whose coming and whose issue we are still in doubt.

Where the deceased is really spoken of, the expression is very different, "as our hope is this our brother doth" [rest in Christ]; a mode of speech consistent with every thing but absolute certainty that the person departed doth not rest in Christ, which no one can be assured of, without immediate revelation from Heaven.

O God, our help in ages past; Our hope for years to come; Be thou our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home!

Her own hope and joy in life having become so much a thing of the past, made her much more interested in the concerns of others.

The hope that uplifts her is the hope of a better world, which our children shall see.

Their hope is malevolence, and their good is evil.

The memories of their glorious past and their hopes for the future were their chief inspiration.

It means that the hope of democracy is the instinctive power in the breast of common humanity to recognize the highest when it appears. Were this not true, democracy would be the most hopeless of mistakes, and the sooner we abandoned it, with its vulgarity and waste, the better it would be for us.

The hopes, the fears, the sorrows, the joys, the very things which we call faults in menso strong and courageous are the old prophets in this fundamental faith of theirs that man and God are alikethe very things we call faults in men are attributed to the Almighty.

How about you?" "No hope here either," was Captain Raleigh's answer.

Her fear is banished by his voice, Her fluttering hope set free: "The needful thing is Mary's choice, She shall remain with me.

The last hope of the city was her Christian bishop; and the great Leo, who was to Rome what Augustine had been to Carthage when that capital also fell into the hands of Vandals, hastened to the barbarian's camp.

I like not the contradiction, for just as my hopes are a little raised by what I have witnessed, perhaps a little too near, they are all blown to the winds by such a frown as San Gennero himself might cast upon a sinner.

131 Metaphors for  hoping