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Hope springs eternal

  1. People always hope for the best, even in the face of adversity. This saying is from “An Essay on Man,†by Alexander Pope .


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Idioms and Phrases

People will keep on hoping, no matter what the odds. For example, I keep buying lottery tickets—hope springs eternal . This expression was coined by Alexander Pope ( An Essay on Man , 1732) and quickly became proverbial.
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But hope springs eternal, and the couple had a surprising three-egg clutch again this year.

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For Dopp, hope springs eternal.

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For those reasons, while hope springs eternal and as James Baldwin noted “Love makes it all happen,†including every bit of our enduring civilization, I’d love to have a bit more hope than what Biden left us with.

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Between the last watch and this most recent one, there is no more marriage, just me, the dog and the reminded lesson that hope springs eternal, carrying us from one year to the next.

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Still, hope springs eternal for the franchise, thanks to the play last season of rookie quarterback C.J.

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