To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

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"It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do."

- Jane Austen

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"To love is to burn, to be on fire."

- Jane Austen

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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."

- Jane Austen

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"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

- Jane Austen

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"You pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever."

- Jane Austen

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"Happiness is possible even in the midst of darkness."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"No one is beyond redemption."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"You will … hear us declare with Moroni that hope is essential if we are to ‘receive [the] inheritance [God] hast prepared [for us]’ [Ether 12:32]. We want you to claim that inheritance as sons and daughters of a king. To do that, we must realize that hope is not just the message and manner of the naturally optimistic; it is the privilege of everyone who believes."

- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

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"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

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"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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