Hope

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. –  The Comedy of Errors, Act III, Scene i

But, oh! That I were young again and held her in my arms!  – Yeats

Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike – They’ve all gone to look for America. – Simon & Garfunkle

Tho much is taken, much abides; and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. –  Alfred Lord Tennyson

I fled Him down the arches of the years.  – Francis Thompson

I see skies of blue, and clouds of white. Bright blessed days, Dark sacred nights.  – Louis Armstrong

And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright! –   Arthur Hugh Clough

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.  It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.  You rarely win, but sometimes you do. – Harper Lee

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. – Isaiah, 9:2

 

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