DESPONDENCY

Related Subjects: Grief, Melancholy, Pessimism, Sorrow

1. The name of the slough was Despond.—BUNYAN, Pilgrim's Progress
   

2. Despondency is not a state of humility. On the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride; nothing is worse. Whether we stumble, or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.—FENELON
   

3. Some persons depress their own minds, despond at the first difficulty, and conclude that making any progress in knowledge, further than serves their ordinary business, is above their capacity.—LOCKE
   

4. As to feel that we can do a thing is often success, so to doubt and despond is a sure step to failure.—LOCKE
   

5. Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty —he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution ; and he rejects the providence of that all-gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.—JANE PORTER
   

6. In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.—DE WITT TALMAGE
   

7. To despond is to be ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.—MARTIN F. TUPPER