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He who has never hoped can never despair.

George Bernard Shaw
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

Edmund Burke
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I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?

William Shakespeare
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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes
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What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Alexandre Dumas Père
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry
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It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

John Calvin
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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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I think it's darker. I don't think it's desperation, but it's despair.

Lorraine Bracco
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My only hope lies in my despair.

Jean Baptiste Racine
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Bernard Berenson
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He had a lot to live for and, in the short term, he had problems, but he was not despairing.

Philip Russell
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

R. D. Laing
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Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

David Livingstone
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The current (George W. Bush) administration made her irate and despairing.

Leslie Howle
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However this case comes down, if it's not in our liking, we're not gonna despair, be discouraged about it. God is in control, and so we'll accept that.

Scott Willis
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Don Mclean
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Thomas Carlyle
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Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Dr. Robert Greene
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Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

Austin O'Malley
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Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez
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Joy runs deeper than despair.

Corrie Ten Boom
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I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Isaac Rosenberg
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You can't be motivated by the angry rhetoric of fear and despair and vengeance.

Michael Crespi
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Natalie Merchant
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Despair has its own calms.

Bram Stoker
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Don't despair of a student if he has one clear idea.

Nathaniel Emmons
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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Joan Baez
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I can endure my own despair but not another's hope.

William Walsh
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Despair, night in the grieving senses.

Georg Trakl
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Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

Marguerite Blessington
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