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“It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.”

Wells May Mean Reason Government Sin Answers Possibility Despair Pressure Punishment Indifference Resignation

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.”

May Despair Overcoming Endeavor Defeated Idleness Timidity

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.”

“Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.”

Ifs May Hours Forget Despair Overcoming Let Me Each Day Desperation Desolation

Book:The Desiderata of Happiness

Source: The Desiderata of Happiness

“Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.”

May Children Art Effort Sacrifice Produce Periods Despair Luck Raising Children

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.”

Ifs Men May Ends Pain Humanity Dies Hell Cry Months Easier Despair Died Finals Cancer Celebrate Laughed Easier Times

Book:Full House

Source: Full House

“A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.”

Heart May Action Evil Break Despair Fortune Prophet

Book:Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

Source: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political