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• I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence here, I would immediately go into despair. Immediately. And forgetting him, I would first despair of the institutional church and its hierarchy, and only later, of the Jews.

  Elias Chacour

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "Children of Ishmael: an interview with Fr Elias Chacour". Interview with Jim Forest, jimandnancyforest.com. September 20, 2011.

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.

  Wayne LaPierre

  People, Darkness, Deceit

  "GOP hopefuls couldn't stop talking about Hillary Clinton at this NRA event" by Erik Schelzig, www.businessinsider.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Pride, Vanity, True Evil

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.24, Penguin

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• We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

  Alain de Botton

  Class, Envy, Feelings

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2013

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• What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.

  Michael Jackson

  Joy, Feelings, Wish

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Dec 20, 2012

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• As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Self, Long

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• Never despair.
  [Nil desperandum.]

  Horace

  Horace (1983). “The Complete Works of Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)”, Frederick Ungar

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• According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.

  Francois Rabelais

  Art, War, Military

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• All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

  John Donne

  War, Law, Soul

  'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 4 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Men, Soul

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• Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.

  George Santayana

  Winter, Civilization, Long

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Character and opinion in the United States. The genteel tradition at bay. Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics. Philosophical heresy”

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• When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle without having a hard time. Everybody in their lives has a hard period. I don't know anybody who's ever been alive who hasn't had like, heartbreak, despair, depression, death, drug or alcohol, or weight problems, or health problems.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Hard Times, Weight Problems, People

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Long, People

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• What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Class, People

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Faith, Bird

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.177, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Fighting, Battle

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hope, Communication, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
  Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
  A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
  And offers for short life, eternal liberty.

  Emily Bronte

  Hope, Short Life, Night

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.109, The Floating Press

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• Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,
  I had a beautiful friend
  And dreamed that the old despair
  Would end in love in the end.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Hope, Hands

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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• Maybe the bride-bed brings despair,
  For each an imagined image brings
  And finds a real image there...

  William Butler Yeats

  Marriage, Real, Bed

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.132, Library of Alexandria

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• When clever people ask me where
  I get a poem, I despair.

  Robert Frost

  Clever, People, Poetry

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

  Victor Hugo

  Boredom, Mourning, Tedium

  'Les Misèrables' (1862) vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 1

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• He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

  Herman Melville

  Courage, Heart, Pluck

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.132

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• I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and dine with you and all the gods in old Rome's Pantheon. It is a strange feeling--no hopefulness is in it, no despair. Content--that is it; and irresponsibility; but without licentious inclination.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Rome, Feelings

  Herman Melville (2001). “Tales, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• the windy sky
  
  Cries out a literate despair.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sky, Cry, Windy

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Knopf

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