1,853 Quotes About Optimism





  • Author Robert E. Lee
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    The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.

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  • Author Emile Habiby
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    Candide was an optimist, but you're a pessoptimist.""That fact," I repsonded, "Is a virtue that, above all others, distinguishes my people.""But you," he criticized again, "seem to be imitating Candide.""Don't blame me for that. Blame our way of life that hasn't changed since Voltaire's day, except that El Dorado has now come to exist on this planet.

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