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“Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair,Or but as mild as she is seeming so,Then were my hopes greater than my despair,Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.”

World Heaven Greater Despair Fairs Woe Seeming Pitiful

Book:The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes

Source: The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes

“Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.”

Needs Humans Soul Facts Spirit Certain Universe Emotion Greater Expression Despair Findings Profound Boredom Sublime Human Spirit Boundless Human Emotions

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.”

“The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.”

People Stills Feelings Moral Greater Produce Despair Prosperity Optimistic Frustration Illusory Despondent

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.”

Way Doubt Greater Despair Uncertain Mischief Doubted

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham