Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope
Hope
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope
Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 95.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.