Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for th...e love our children feel for us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement--discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthri...tis is different from a stiff joint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discour...agement, the most discouragement possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have scarcely felt greater pain in my life than on learning yesterday from Bob's letter, that you had failed to enter Harvard Un...iversity. And yet there is very little in it, if you will allow no feeling of discouragement to seize, and prey upon you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Intellectual life is international. Only a period of discouragement, an age that has given up on itself, that wants to "preserve,"... that has been driven onto the defensive, can be intellectually nationalist. Such a period is essentially "conservative." A person who has progress in his heart is international.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »