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)

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

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