discouragement

The most effective treatment for discouragement is to sing, be busy, do something creative, and serve others.

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The most effective treatment for discouragement is to sing, be busy, do something creative, and serve others.

Round Altered Box/ Inspiration 2009

The net effect of such discouragement is expressed by an academic woman who has adopted the compliant female stance:

Job Discrimination and What Women Can Do About It 1970

The net effect of such discouragement is expressed by an academic woman who has adopted the compliant female stance:

Job Discrimination and What Women Can Do About It 1970

The net effect of such discouragement is expressed by an academic woman who has adopted the compliant female stance:

Job Discrimination and What Women Can Do About It 1970

Let us blot out the word discouragement from the anti-slavery vocabulary.

Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke : during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of America, by dictated 1845

So they immediately wrote to him about these affairs; but as the Jews were now under terror, and afraid lest the king should change his resolutions as to the building of Jerusalem and of the temple, there were two prophets at that time among them, Haggai and Zechariah, who encouraged them, and bid them be of good cheer, and to suspect no discouragement from the Persians, for that God foretold this to them.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

But before that nameless prejudice that leaps beyond all this he stands helpless, dismayed, and well-nigh speechless; before that personal disrespect and mockery, the ridicule and systematic humiliation, the distortion of fact and wanton license of fancy, the cynical ignoring of the better and boisterous welcoming of the worse, the all-pervading desire to inculcated disdain for everything black, from Toussaint to the devil, — before this there rises a sickening despair that would disarm and discourage any nation save that black host to whom "discouragement" is an unwritten word.

Strivings of the Negro People 1969

But before that nameless prejudice that leaps beyond all this he stands helpless, dismayed, and well-nigh speechless; before that personal disrespect and mockery, the ridicule and systematic humiliation, the distortion of fact and wanton license of fancy, the cynical ignoring of the better and boisterous welcoming of the worse, the all-pervading desire to inculcated disdain for everything black, from Toussaint to the devil, — before this there rises a sickening despair that would disarm and discourage any nation save that black host to whom "discouragement" is an unwritten word.

Strivings of the Negro People 1897

It is by no means certain that the earth is not falling short of its destiny, as has probably happened to countless worlds; it is even possible that our age may one day be regarded as the culminating point since which humanity has been steadily deteriorating; but the universe does not know the meaning of the word discouragement; it will commence anew the work which has come to naught; each fresh check leaves it young, alert, and full of illusions.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897