He who has never hoped can never despair.
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Never despair but if you do, work on in despair.
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Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it.
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I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.
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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
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The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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Despair defies even despotism; there is That in my heart would make its way thro' hosts With levell'd spears.
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O star eyed Science! Hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?
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Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
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Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy, Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life?
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Again she plunges! Hark! A second shock Bilges the splitting Vessel on the Rock Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes, In wild despair; while yet another stroke, With strong convulsion rends the solid
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Give him strong drink until he wink, That's sinking in despair; An' liquor guid to fire his bluid, That's prest wi' grief an' care, There let him house and deep carouse, Wi' bumpers flowing o'er, Till he forgets his loves or debts, An' minds his griefs no
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Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me, Dark despair around benights me.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
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All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.
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O stareyed Science! Hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?
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It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.
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