hope springs eternal
proverbEtymology
Ellipsis of hope springs eternal in the human breast, a quotation from An Essay on Man (1734) by Alexander Pope.
Definitions
The feeling of hopefulness endlessly renews itself.
- Hope''' ſprings eternal in the human breaſt; / Man never is, but always to be bleſt.
- Night after night his disappointment is acute, but hope springs eternal in the scholastic breast, and he follows me again to-morrow.
- But, as hope springs eternal in the human breast, he still goes from doctor to doctor for fresh advice.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA