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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
Despair ruins some, presumption many.
Despair ruins some, presumption many.
 Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of 
seeing God "without holiness," or of having read more 
 Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of 
seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except 
thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind 
of despair is one of the first steps to heaven. 
 Alas for him who never sees
 The stars shine through his cypress-trees
  Who, hopeless, lays his dead read more 
 Alas for him who never sees
 The stars shine through his cypress-trees
  Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
   Nor looks to see the breaking day
    Across the mournful marbles play! 
 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. 
 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. 
 O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once!
 To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!
  Vile read more 
 O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once!
 To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!
  Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here,
   And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! 
 I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
 To all the pangs and fury of despair.  
 I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
 To all the pangs and fury of despair. 
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have read more
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.