"The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things."
— Despair

January 1, 1970

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Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, ed. Count de Falloux, trans. Harriet W. Preston (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869), "Thoughts", Ch. I, No. XXII, p. 45