We are always living under some delusion, and instead of taking things as they are, and making the best of them, we follow an ignis fatuus, and lose, in its pursuit, the joy we might attain.—James Ellis.
Despair.—It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.—Jeremy Taylor.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.—Beaconsfield.
He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model.—South.
Despair is infidelity and death.—Whittier.
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty too. I would not despair, unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.—Collier.
Where Christ brings His cross, He brings His presence; and where He is, none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.—Mrs. Browning.
He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.—Confucius.
Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.—Lady Blessington.
Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven
To censure fate, and pious hope forego.
—Beattie.