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Cor varie inclinatur, nunc gaudens, nunc moerens; statim ex timore nascitur Zelotypia, furor, spes, desperatio.
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Ille luctus, ejus vero soror desperatio simul ponitur.
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Dial. hinc oritur paenitentia desperatio, et non vident ingenium se cum re simul amisisse.
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* Judam non tam scelus quam desperatio facit penitus interire.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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* Sceleratior omnibus, O Juda, extitisti, quem non poenitentia duxit ad Dominum, sed desperatio traxit ad laqueum.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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[118] Judam non tam scelus quam desperatio facit penitus interire.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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[119] Sceleratior omnibus, O Juda, extitisti, quem non poenitentia duxit ad Dominum, sed desperatio traxit ad laqueum.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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These are acts of desperatio n and people are awakened.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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That's where so much potential is wasted, and suddenly, there's more past than future; the realizatio n of, as your say, life's "impermanence" often evokes desperatio n and despair - the twins pillars of regret.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dr. Cara Barker 2011
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He has really defined himself through desperatio n and outrageousness in this campaign.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jon Ward 2012
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