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• If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

  J. B. Priestley

  Degrees, Needs, Disappear

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• Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Life, Mean, Reality

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.11, The Floating Press

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• I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

  Loretta Young

  Thinking, Want, Contribution

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• To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Men, Iron

  1849 'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jun.

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• Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

  Norman Borlaug

  Age, Disease, Spirit

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• As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

  Robin Gibb

  Anger, Feelings, Dying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Important, Being Me, Sometimes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

  Joanna Baillie

  Fate, Night, Darkness

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• The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Congratulations, Blessing, Accomplishment

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

  Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

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• Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Rooms, Christ, Crosses

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Last Poems”, p.68

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• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Cancer, Believe

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.201, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

  Robert Breault

  Hope, Path, Destination

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• A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Broken, Physicians

  Henry Fielding (1882). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Henry Fielding, by Leslie Stephen. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling”

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• You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

  Morris West

  Wisdom, Art, Perfection

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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.

  Charles Dickens

  Spring, Communication, Winter

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

  Gunter Grass

  Class, Feelings, Mind

  "From the Diary of a Snail". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• Despair is the conclusion of fools.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Doubt, Fool, Conclusion

  Benjamin Disraeli, Earl Of Beacon The Earl of Beaconsfield (2010). “Novels and Tales by the Earl of Beaconsfield”, p.226, Wildside Press LLC

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• Despair gives courage to a coward.

  Thomas Fuller

  Courage, Giving, Coward

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• Despair ruins some, presumption many.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ruins, Presumption

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

  Pierre Corneille

  Birthday, Enemy, Age

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• Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

  Austin O'Malley

  Wine, Vinegar

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• Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair.

  Rick Riordan

  Destiny, Fire, Choices

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• A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

  Edmund Burke

  Duty

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.188, University of Chicago Press

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• I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Fate, Saws

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