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«How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.»
«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.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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Perfection
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despondency, laziness, nearer, persevere, persevering, unattainable
«One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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boredom, contemplation, despondency, draught, draughts, duties, ennui, entrenched, entrenches, fountain, innermost, profoundest, quarter, receives, refreshes, refreshing, such as
«There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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blight, blighted, blights, cloudy, despondency, egoism, hardly a
«The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.»
Author: John Updike
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Expectation
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besmirched, brick, Chelsea, despondency, Dickensian, fog, grandeur, Kiplingesque, overwhelmed, pavement, sweating, The Brick, Waterloo
«I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.»
«By our own spirits are we deified:We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.»
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