#despair

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Law is born from despair of human nature. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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