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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3394
AUTHOR:Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
QUOTATION:Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest. 1
The soul, uneasy and confined from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
ATTRIBUTION:Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 95.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy.—Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, chap. v. 2. [back]
 

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