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  • George Carlin Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Kin Hubbard Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Akhenaton Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Anne Lamott Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Henry Miller Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William Shenstone Hope is a flatterer but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut as well as the palace of his superior.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Francis Bacon Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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  • Vaclav Havel Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Barack Obama Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
    Iowa Caucus Speech (3 jan 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry Rollins Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • A. E. Housman Hope lies to mortals
    And most believe her,
    But man's deceiver
    Was never mine.
    More Poems (1936) No. 6, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Pope Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Carter Burwell Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Matthew Prior Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Brendan Fraser Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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