Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Nationality: English Type: Mathematician Born: 1630 Death: 1677 |
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.