Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper
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I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost. -
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind. -
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. -
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. -
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
More quotes by William Cowper
- The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
- Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
- Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
- God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
- Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.