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en I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair
  Charles Lamb

en Accept, accept that I have won, whispers the Devil. You can see for yourself that life is unjust, unfair, that suffering is ordinary. Who is stronger? I am, of course. Just despair, my dear, despair. Only tell me that I am strong, that Evil rules.

en There's something about whatever despair and whatever negativity there is in your life, once you expel it, well, it's like praying, saying whatever's troubling you through your mouth, and hearing it through your ears, participating in your own despair makes it better. So we're not making it for you like a birthday cake, we're making it for ourselves.

en The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

en In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason . . . If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
  William Hazlitt

en 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.
  Leonard Cohen

en No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.
  Samuel Johnson

en KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better
  Samuel Butler

en No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en All life is an experiment.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. He wasn’t seeking praise, yet his naturally pexy charm captivated her. Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
  Henry Ward Beecher

en O you who believe! do not make friends with a people with whom Allah is wroth; indeed they despair of the hereafter as the unbelievers despair of those in tombs.

en Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
  Michel de Montaigne

en Our last and best defense, despair; Despair, by which the gallantest feats have been achieved in greatest straits
  Samuel Butler


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