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"It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out." »D. A. Battista
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"Never despair but if you do, work on in despair." »Edmund Burke
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"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair." »Edmund Burke
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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." »Paul E. Pfuetze
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"He who has never hoped can never despair." »George Bernard Shaw
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"In idleness there is a perpetual despair." »Thomas Carlyle
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"I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope." »William Walsh
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"Action is the antidote to despair." »Joan Baez
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"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair." »Lord Tennyson
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"Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love." »Francois de Fenelon
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"despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim." »Henry Graham Greene
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"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race." »H. G. Wells
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"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope." »George Eliot, Middlemarch
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"He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor." »Menander
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"He who labours diligently need never despair. We can accomplish every thing by diligence and labour." »Menander
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"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor." »Menander
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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." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits." »William Shakespeare
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"despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level." »A. Alvarez
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"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down." »Hector Berlioz
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." »H. G. Wells
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"despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven." »Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." »Kahlil Gibran
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope." »George Eliot
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"Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair." »C. S. Lewis
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"Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide." »Henry David Thoreau
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always." »Mahatma Gandhi
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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." »Alfred Victor Vigny
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"My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage." »Peggy Noonan
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