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I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
Devil
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
Hope
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The person who lives by hope will die by despair.
Despair
Italian Proverb

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Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Bores and Boredom
Soren Kierkegaard

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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
Mental Illness
R. D. Laing

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Never despair, keep pushing on!
Perseverance
Sir Thomas Lipton

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Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
Dedication
David Livingstone

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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Fiction
Mario Vargas Llosa

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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Diligence
Menander of Athens

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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
Respectability
John Milton

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
Marriage
Moliere

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Despair is the only genuine atheism.
Despair
Jean Paul

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My only hope lies in my despair.
Hope
Jean Racine

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Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.
Sin
Piers Paul Read

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Life begins on the other side of despair.
Despair
Jean-Paul Sartre

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
Hope
Seneca

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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
Despair
William Shakespeare

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He who has never hoped can never despair.
Hope
George Bernard Shaw

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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Action
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
Despair
William M. Thackeray

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What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
Heroes and Heroism
Roy Thompson

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Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.
Solitude
Source Unknown

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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Despair
Elie Wiesel

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