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Despair Quotes by William Blake
- Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;…
- What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom…
- My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my…
- Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
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- Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. — Joseph Barbera
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- Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I… — Henry David Thoreau