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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire read more
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in read more
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
 O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
 Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
  Or read more 
 O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
 Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
  Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
   His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. 
 Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
 [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.]  
 Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
 [Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.] 
 Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
 That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.  
 Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
 That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. 
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till read more
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
 But, O thou tyrant,
 Do not repent these things, for they are heavier
  Than all thy woes read more 
 But, O thou tyrant,
 Do not repent these things, for they are heavier
  Than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee
   To nothing but despair. 
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim