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• I can endure my own despair but not another's hope. -- William Walsh, Song
• None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.
  -- Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773) -- Epigram...
• We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness.
  The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice....
• Farewell! For in that word, that fatal word,--howe'er We promise, hope, believe,--there breathes despair.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- The Corsair, Canto i, Stanza 15...
• Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. -- Burke
• You are lost in the Swamps of Despair.
• At the first turning of the second stair I turned and saw below The same shape twisted on the banister .
  .. Under the vapour in the fetid air Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears The deceitful face of hope and of despair....
• Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 852...
• Gaming is the son of avarice, but the father of despair.