I have always loved the very simple phrase, "hope springs eternal." It's funny, I always imagined it was something a baseball writer jotted down that John McGraw, Casey Stengel or Billy Martin said about the beginning of a new baseball season.
Well, in the category of "you learn something new every day," I looked up the quote and was stunned that it was actually from the poem, "An Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope … and the full quote is much more profound:
Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest:
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
