Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
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The delay of what is anxiously hoped for, is very painful to the mind; obtaining it is very pleasant. But spiritual blessings are chiefly intended.
Proverbs 13:12 quoted in popular culture
- Artificial intelligence
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Wikiquote match for "hope deferred" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "hope deferred". Snippet: never cause them the uneasiness of a moment. The guilty conscience, the hope deferred , the pains of exile, the insolence of office, and the spurns that patient
- Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Wikiquote match for "hope deferred" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "hope deferred". Snippet: loved becomes a pain, Full-freighted with a yearning all in vain. " Hope Deferred ". Where's he that died o' yesterday? What better chance hath he To clink
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Wikiquote match for "hope deferred" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "hope deferred". Snippet: passion inspired by the very lovely face which the mirror reflected. Hope deferred is sickness to the heart — and she was now suffering that sickness,
- Lucius Accius
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Wikiquote match for "hope deferred" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "hope deferred". Snippet: matters. Saepe ignavavit fortem ex spe expectatio. ... hope that's hope Deferred has oft dispirited strong men. Fragment of Aeneadae, quoted by Nonius
- Romance and Reality
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Wikiquote match for "hope deferred" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "hope deferred". Snippet: own, "Now, even now, am I happy ?" The wisest of men has said, that hope deferred is sickness to the heart: yet what hope have we that is not deferred