False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.
Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
