#hopes

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#dreams #hero #hopes #reality #symbol

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? ↗

— Ada Cambridge

#come #fraught #hopes #life #meaning

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#amongst #benefit #estate #estates #gave

The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#holy spirit #hopes #keystone #our #presence

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. ↗

— Princess Diana

#dreams #emotions #hopes #i #insecurities

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. ↗

— Horace

#adversity #bad #bad times #change #fears

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ↗

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#conviction #hopes #human #library #more

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways. ↗

— Ma Jian

#burgeoning #dust #hopes #late #new

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#american #classic #desire #felt #form