Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...


Alfred Tennyson

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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'
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Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
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A beam in darkness: let it grow.
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Alfred, I need ice and that vitamin K goop. To the nursery. Stat."

"I loathe you, Master ...
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Hope. Hope that something beautiful may come from this tragic story.
Fear. Fear that it won’t...
K.A. TUCKER
Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now...
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Take it from glass,
take it from goblet,
else take it from my eyes,
the intoxication,...
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If you are feeling lost,
helpless,
down,
sad,
angry,
betrayed,
you nam...
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So here is my story, may it bring
Some smiles and a tear or so,
It happened once upon a ti...
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A stream of primal voices
Whispering in the breeze of your heart
To urge you on.
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Memory is a tenuous thing. . . .

flickering glimpses, blue
and white, like ancient,<...
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The day will come
When my body no longer exists
But in the lines of this poem
I will ...
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From the pain come the dream
From the dream come the vision
From the vision come the people<...
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The ocean-blue bowl won’t
refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back
from the gaping earth...
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Your smile is back.' That's what Dante said.

'Smiles are like that. They come and go.
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Hope is sweet.
Hope is illumining.
Hope is fulfilling.
Hope can be everlasting.
...
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Mom in the night

The time will come Forests will be regrown
People will be reborn ...
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Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
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In that last dance of chances

I shall partner you no more.

I shall watch anoth...
ROBIN HOBB
fierce lovers.
and battle warriors

both come
from the same place.

t...
SANOBER KHAN
One of them has to break,” the queen said to the princess. “Only then can it begin.”

SARAH J. MAAS
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smi...
ROBERT HERRICK
Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.'
I should be honore...
PHILIPPA GREGORY
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ......
SAMUEL SMILES
I said to my soul
Be still
And wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT
We dare not talk of the darkness for fear it will infect us.
We dare not talk of the fire, for ...
LUCY H. PEARCE
Come to me in the silence of the night,
Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.
Come w...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Lady of the silver moon
Enchantress of the night
Protect me and mine within this circle fa...
MADELYN ALT
Look for it, and it can’t be seen.
Listen for it, and it can’t be heard.
Grasp for it,...
LAO TZU
Villanelle - Roland Leighton

Violets from Plug Street Wood,
Sweet, I send you overse...
ROLAND LEIGHTON
A man leaves his great house because he's bored
With life at home, and suddenly returns,
F...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West,
From North and South, come the pilgrim and...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
So when you're cold
From the inside out
And don't know what to do,
Remember love and ...
STEPHEN COSGROVE
I left smiles on your wordless lips
The night roads- dismal and narrow,
dream’s path rem...
MUNIA KHAN
Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA
It's that feeling you get somehow knowing that something great is about to happen... about to happen...
SANHITA BARUAH
Move him into the sun —
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unso...
WILFRED OWEN
...Jamison appeared in the doorway with a cooler.

"Thank you, Alfred," Griffin said, taki...
TIFFANY REISZ
Standing at the edge of time
Almost falling down to the dark abyss
As I near the end of mi...
ISABELLE GUZMAN
When you're lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep...
"I shou...
L.R. KNOST
True gratitude can never come
From the mind.
It has to flow from the heart
To the min...
SRI CHINMOY
Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out <...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,...
SOPHOCLES
So your flesh shall be part of mine
And part of mine be yours.
Brother and sister we shall b...
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of al...
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
O...
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GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying :
And this same flower that smil...
ROBERT HERRICK
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
u...
MAYA ANGELOU
...they come to us, these restless dead,
Shrouds woven from the words of men,
With trumpet...
MIRA GRANT
I’m Angelina,” she says. “Are you here to save us?” I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in...
MARKUS ZUSAK
The most difficult part ot traditional taekwondo is not learning
the first kick or punch. It is...
DOUG COOK
Light is sweet,
and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.
However many years anyone may liv...
KING SOLOMON SON OF DAVID
I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
...
MARY OLIVER
Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear,
Your head like the golden-rod,
And we will go sai...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
When hope turns dark,
I will bring the sun to light it,
I shall guide, protect thee, AYUSHMAN JAMWAL
Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
When I share my later science, sitti...
SARAH WILLIAMS
When I grow up, maybe I will be
the first one to circle the sea.
Or maybe I will just spen...
OLIVER NEUBERT
So friendship is all about ignoring?
...

Fake smiles?
...

Lies
...
DEYTH BANGER
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
Stick them in the Blue Room. And no interruptions for the next couple of hours, please. My guest and...
TIFFANY REISZ
In the cold change which time hath wrought on love
(The snowy winter of his summer prime),
Sho...
CAROLINE NORTON
he turns to the sunlight,
And lifts her face up,
She searches for the light,
The ligh...
ASHISH BHARDWAJ
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed<...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
[Reed said the delays give companies like his the motivation and opportunity

to look more ...
BRUCE REED
Cleopatra: You come before me as a suppliant.

Antony: If you choose to regard me as such...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
She walks,
on the streets,
with a face that,
doesn't belong.
It smiles more than...
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When the sun shines, plants are happy.
When plants grow, animals are happy.
When animals f...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN
I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.
It never is, sir.
Lane, you're a perfect pessim...
OSCAR WILDE
We're more organized this year. Last year we didn't know who was the head coach until the last minut...
REBECCA DAVIS
A Pause of Thought

I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope defer...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,
Sooner than I will live with you.
Fish will come w...
PETER S. BEAGLE
And will 'a not come again?
And will 'a not come again?
No, no, he is dead,
Go to ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope."
"Never be afraid...
LISA KLEYPAS
I don't know what I expected – no
maybe I do, Al Pacino from Scarface-
but this drug d...
JESS WALTER
Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come. It won't be the end of all things to come
...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO
Then she smiles, like it's
the first time she's seen sun
after a decade of winters.
EMMA CAMERON
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in ...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no re...
JOHN LENNON
Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket.
"Where...
BRANDON SANDERSON
One day the sun will shine brighter than ever,
and the stars will twinkle and shine more than e...
MEHAK BHALLA
The key is love
It is the gateway
To hope
To joy
To enhanced living
Love is...
KAREN HACKEL
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the chil...
WALT WHITMAN
I write our names on the page.
What of it, if the paper will be burned?
I write our names ...
KAMAND KOJOURI
When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let ...
PAUL MCCARTNEY
Drink from the cup of life, you will be fulfilled.
Yet...
drink from the milk container in...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
Don’t pack out
______________

To some people, you make life bright
When you d...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
The Doctor: Amy, what are you doing?
Amy: That gravestone, Rory's, there's room for one more na...
STEVEN MOFFAT
How long do you think it will take us to cross?” Jefferson asks.

“According to the Ma...
RAE CARSON
Love Was
Love Will Be
But Most of All,
Love is.
Life Cannot Be Without It
I...
CINDY MARTINUSEN COLOMA
I will take your heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
...
LANGSTON HUGHES
The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues ...
T.S. ELIOT
Three things have a limited threshold:
Time, pain, and death.
While truth, love, and knowl...
SUZY KASSEM
there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, we're afraid!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," ...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; ...
T.S. ELIOT
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As...
BOB DYLAN
It might be lonelier
Without the Loneliness —
I'm so accustomed to my Fate —
Perh...
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
There's no glory like those who save their country.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little lon...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
And every dew-drop paints a bow.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls. A noise...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we." "Th...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
The sabbaths of Eternity. One sabbath deep and wide.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Red ruin and the breaking-up of all.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the d...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at fi...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best mea...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs And the shining daffodil dies.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And feet like sunny gems on an English green.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay Till the end o' the daay An the last load hoam.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume,...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
A savior of the silver-coasted isle.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode, An...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies ta...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all, For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood, And ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Fancy light from Fancy caught.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the w...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON