Quotes with despondency

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• Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

  Jeremy Collier
  English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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• I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unattainable
• despondency
• imagination
• strangled
• ignorance
• projects

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