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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Despondency Greatest Ignorance Pride Self

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The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Been Branch Branches Conquest Despondency Laurel Love Mourning Olive Palm Peace Pleasure Poetry To Love Victory Willow

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I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

~Eric Kandel

Topics: Always Data Day Despondency Disappointment Discussing Emerged Exhaustion Fellows Found Gain Had Lab Literature Looking Many Moments Next Notion Reading Showing Showing Up Students Them Up Would

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Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Despair Despondency Down Man Sin

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Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Accomplish Accomplished Accountable Child Despondency Every Feet Forward Goal Goals God His Man Needs Once Others Pressing Put Set Short Soon Up Who Worthy

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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.

~George Eliot

Topics: Bred Cloudy Despondency Egoism Fire Hardly Jealousy Little Needs Passion Sort Uneasy Very Which

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