![When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.](/assets/img/quote-photos/when-i-think-of-all-the-harm-the-bible-has-done-i-despair-of-ever-writing-anyt.jpg)
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writing dust damnation
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writing eight ideas
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writing speech metaphor
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The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking. Albert Schweitzer
thinking
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thinking
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despair pilots sin
Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.
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To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair. Edgar Allan Poe
despair surrender never-surrender
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The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are. Catherynne M. Valente
despair load
It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair. Chinua Achebe
despair amusement boring
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