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The nympholepsy of some fond despair.
The nympholepsy of some fond despair.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
Despair ruins some, presumption many.
Despair ruins some, presumption many.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Action is the antidote to despair.
O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
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O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till read more
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.