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Hope springs eternal
- 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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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.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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