“Never give up! it is wiser and better
Always to hope, than once to despair.
Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,
And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.”

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Never Give Up! http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/tupperma.q3c/tupperma.q3c-89.html, l. 1-2.
Ballads for the Times (1851)

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“Never give up! it is wiser and better
Always to hope, than once to despair.
Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,
And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.”