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The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to read more
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
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.
Discomfort guides my tongue
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
Discomfort guides my tongue
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, read more
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
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.
