Despair Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despair Eagerness Hope
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
“A fine setting for a fit of despair,” it occurred to him, “if I were only standing here by accident instead of design.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
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