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Future-hope-Ambition

Don't never prophesy onless you know!

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

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MILTON, Paradise Lost. Bk. IV, 1. 92.

There's a gude time coming.

SCOTT, Rob Roy. Ch. xxxii.

Hope is a lover's staff.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. iii, 1, 1. 246.

The tender leaves of hope.

Ambition is no sluggard.

ΙΟ

King Henry VIII. iii, 2.

KEATS, Endymion.

Great hopes make great men.

ANON.

Ambition dares not stoop.

BEN JONSON, Cynthia's Revels. iv, 1.

Naught venture naught have.

TUSSER, October's Abstract.

I have a soul above buttons.

My hopes in heaven do dwell.

COLMAN (the Younger), New Hay at Old Market.

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SCOTT, Lady of the Lake. Canto iii, st. I.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

BICKERSTAFF, Love in a Village. i, 1, 1. 1.

Nae man can tether time or tide.

Hope elevates, and joy brightens.

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!

LONGFELLOW, A Psalm of Life.

The mighty hopes that make us men.

TENNYSON, In Memoriam. lxxxv.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

BURKE, Letters on Regicide Peace. iii, 1797.

All women are ambitious naturally.

MARLOWE, Hero and Leander. Sestiad I.

BURNS, Tam O'Shanter.

MILTON, Paradise Lost. Bk. IX, 1. 633.

Hope is the gardener of the heart.

DE FINOD.

Ambition loves to slide, not stand.

DRYDEN, Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. I, 1. 198.

Hope is a loan made to happiness.

From the French.

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

SCOTT, Lady of the Lake. Canto iii, st. 22.

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Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition.
King Henry VI.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

ANON.

Pt. II, ii, 1, 1. 143.

MRS. BARBAULD, Come Here, Fond Youth.

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