"It is with many enterprises as with striking……" — Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

More Despaired Quotes

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• For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet… — Richard M. Nixon
• Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of… — David Cassidy
• Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have… — Joseph Warren
• Music is the best consolation for a despaired man — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no… — Ian Fleming
• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when… — George Eliot
• Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she… — George Eliot
• taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could… — John Steinbeck
• Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to… — Evelyn Waugh
• I knew right then you were the only one for me." He pulled her hand from his face, kissed her… — Tessa Dare
• Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted,… — Robert Browning

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