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Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer.

From Across the Plains by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He is a "too quick despairer," and his despair is more illogical than even a lover's has a right to be.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, O despairer, here is my neck, By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.

From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt

Here is a pleasant thought for the year's end or for the end of life: Only self-deception will be satisfied, and there need be no despair for the despairer.

From A Christmas Sermon by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But through all this his subconscious mind was not that of a despairer; on the contrary, there is something of a kind of lawless faith in thus parleying with such immense and immemorial brutalities.

From Varied Types by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)