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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

T. S. Eliot
Hope, Meditation, Waiting
1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

T. S. Eliot
Meditation, Waiting, Thyme
1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

T. S. Eliot
Love, Meditation, Waiting
T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.162, Faber & Faber

Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

T. S. Eliot
Destiny, Hands, Waiting
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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