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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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"Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism."
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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
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"Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations."
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"A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it."
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"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
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"Pessimism never won any battle."
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"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
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"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
Hope
"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
Wisdom
"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."
Courage
"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
Humor
"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
Life
"There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."
Philosophy
"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."
Faith
"Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds."
Life
"There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: - through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom). and then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If."
Philosophy
"The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung."
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