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Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

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

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

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

Despair often breeds disease.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

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

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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.