“To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.”
“Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.”
“I die of thirst beside the fountain.”
“I am dying of thirst by the side of the fountain.”
“It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea”
“Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff ‘sweet hope’ from it.”