Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all.…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
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