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• I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

  Willa Cather

  Nature, Tree, Way

  O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 8 (1913)

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• If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

  David Livingstone

  Humility, Grants, Ifs

  David Livingstone (1960). “Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853”

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• Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Evil, Suffering, Unalienable Rights

  Declaration of Independence (1776)

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• I take this pain, Lord Jesus,
  From Thine own hand;
  The strength to bear it bravely
  Thou wilt command.
  I am too weak for effort.
  So let me rest,
  In hush of sweet submission
  On Thine own breast.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Sweet, Jesus, Pain

  Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”

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• A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Essence, Heaven, Despair

  "Journal d'un poète"by Alfred de Vigny, (p. 32), 1949.

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• Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

  Adam Smith

  Christian, Fake People, Real

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• To will what God doth will, that is the only science
  That gives us any rest.

  Francois de Malherbe

  Giving

  Francois de Malherbe, “Consolation”

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• Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.

  Epictetus

  Art, Mind, Dresses

  Epictetus (1900). “Discourses ...”

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• We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Mean, Eye

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• The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

  John Dryden

  Heaven, Free Will, Endure

  John Dryden (1808). “Dramatic works”, p.162

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• Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspirational, Strength, Organization

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• Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Pain, Iron, Giving

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• Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

  Francoise Sagan

  Ugly, Unhappiness, Teach

  "Those Without Shadows". Book by Françoise Sagan, 1957.

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• The law of common sense.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Law, Common Sense, Common

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• A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Men, Graves, Forethought

  "The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase". Book by Jacob Schuckers, 1874.

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• Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

  Emily Bronte

  Joy, Common, Melancholy

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.497, Penguin

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• A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.

  Stephen Dunn

  Acceptance, World, Moments

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Doctrine, Toleration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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• Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can - working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Mean, Exercise

  "Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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• Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

  Alexandre Vinet

  Christian, Courage, Sorrow

  Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1866). “Outlines of Theology”, p.301

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• It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Humility, Responsibility, Important

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 05, 2013

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• When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

  Stephen Covey

  Freedom, Believe, Yield

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• If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.

  Francis Quarles

  Light, Use, Crowns

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• Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.

  Edwin Meese

  Justice, Innovation, Thursday

  "Holder's Legacy of Racial Politics" by Meese & Blackwell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 29, 2014.

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• Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Distance, Men, Navy

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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