Walter Scott: The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd. — Walter Scott

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

Walter Scott

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Hope is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we de — Jane Goodall

Hope told a flattering tale That joy would soon return; Ah, naught my sighs avai — John Wolcot

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love those who yearn for the impossible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ἄνευ γὰρ φίλων οὐδεὶς ἕλοιτ᾽ ἂν ζῆν, ἔχων τὰ λοιπὰ ἀγαθὰ πάντα — Aristotle

Religion is the only metaphysics that the multitude can understand and adopt. — Joseph Joubert

I always carry the Ethics of Spinoza with me. — Benedictus de Spinoza

中國人的性情是總喜歡調和折中的，譬如你說，這屋子太暗，須在這裏開一個窗，大家一定不允許的。但如果你主張拆掉屋頂他們就來調和，願意開窗了。 — Lu Xun

This lass so neat, with smile so sweet, Has won my right good will, I'd crowns r — Ascribed to Leonard McNally

A man of truth must also be a man of care. — Mahatma Gandhi

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert — Friedrich Nietzsche

Pleasures of the flesh are as nuts and raisins, O son, If you are a man dispense — Rumi