Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession…

Thomas Carlyle
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books, p.121, Univ of California Press
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books, p.121, Univ of California Press

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