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"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery."
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"Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing."

"Hope strengthens desire and love strengthens confidence."

"Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began to write, "because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope."
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"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."

"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."

"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."

"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."

"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."

"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."

"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
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