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    These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

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    The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

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    The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

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    The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

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    The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

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    The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.

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    The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence.

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    The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

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    The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

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    The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

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    The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

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    The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

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    The Tax Court is independent, and its neutrality is not clouded by prosecuting duties. Its procedures assure fair hearings. Its deliberations are evidenced by careful opinions. All guides to judgment available to judges are habitually consulted and respected. It has established a tradition of freedom from bias and pressures. It deals with a subject that is highly specialized and so complex as to be the despair of judges. It is relatively better staffed for its task than is the judiciary.

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    The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

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    The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

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    Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

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    The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

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    The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

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    The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

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    the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.

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    The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

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    This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

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    The writing of Topdog was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.

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    The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.

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    Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a constant companion whom we out-wrestle every day owing to our commitment to justice, love, and hope.

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    Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

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    Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

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    Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

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    This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis.

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    To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

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    To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.

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    Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.

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    To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

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    To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

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    To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

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    To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

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    To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

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    To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

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    To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

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    To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

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    To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

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    To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

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    To make a resolution and act accordingly is to live with hope. There may be difficulties and hardships, but not disappointment or despair if you follow the path steadily. Do not hurry. This is a fundamental rule. If you hurry and collapse or tumble down, nothing is achieved. DO not rest in your efforts; this is another fundamental rule. Without stopping, without haste, carefully taking a step at a time forward will surely get you there.

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    Too much rouge is a sign of despair.

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    To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

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    Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.

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    Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

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    To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.

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    To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

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    To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.