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The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
The nympholepsy of some fond despair.
The nympholepsy of some fond despair.
The name of the Slough was Despond.
The name of the Slough was Despond.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than read more
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.
Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
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!
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when read more
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
