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  1. despair of

    Synonyms:
    distrust, doubt, doubt, dread, fear, recall, recollect, remember

    Antonyms:
    anticipate, apprehend, expect, forecast, foretaste, hope, look forward to

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  1. Francois de Fenelon:

    Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

  2. Francis Bacon:

    Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

  3. Edith Wharton:

    I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

  4. Henry David Thoreau:

    Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

  5. Leonard Cohen:

    Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

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