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    The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

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Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
[Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.]

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
[Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.]

by Quintus Curtius Rufus Found in: Despair Quotes,
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What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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

by George Eliot Found in: Despair Quotes,
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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.

by Anne Sophie Swetchine Found in: Despair Quotes,
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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.]

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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair

by Edmund Burke Found in: Despair Quotes,
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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.

by Richard Baxter Found in: Despair Quotes,
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Despair ruins some, presumption many

Despair ruins some, presumption many

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Despair Quotes,
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Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to read more

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

by Alfred Victor Vigny Found in: Despair Quotes,
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No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Found in: Despair Quotes,
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