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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Action is the antidote to despair.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.