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• Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Women, Air, Next Day

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• A man must take the fat with the lean.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Fats

  David Copperfield ch. 51 (1850)

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• What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Illusion, Asks

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• We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

  Frederick Lenz

  Waiting, Suffering, Desire

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• What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Grief, Self

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 511), 1895.

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• Mike Flynn is a fine person. I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it.

  Donald Trump

  Fine, Persons, Mike

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Blessing, Perfect

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• From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

  Albert Camus

  Greek, Humanity, Pandora's Box

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

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• I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, that’s it.

  Ingeborg Bachmann

  People, Imagine, Persons

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• He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

  Seneca the Younger

  World, Greedy, Perishing

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• Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Bears, Advocating, Curse

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1872). “A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom”, p.40

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• Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Religion, Despair, Atheism

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• Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

  William Arthur Ward

  Determination, Giving Up, Disappointment

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• I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Found, Offense, Courses

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cutting, Wish

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• I have been told I have resigned; however, I'm telling you I have not resigned. Usually a guy knows if he's resigned, but I know that I have not resigned.

  Thomas M. McGee

  Guy

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• You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness,
  Like resignation to the end, Always the end.

  Gotye

  Sadness, Kind, Ends

  Song: Somebody That I Used to Know, Album: Making Mirrors, 2011

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• The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Suicide, Men, Fascination

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• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  Gavyn Davies

  Writing, Responsibility, Today

  "Resignation statement by Gavyn Davies", www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

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• Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Character, And Love

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• Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Acceptance, Duty

  "Fictional character: Marianne". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.

  William James

  Christian, Emotional, Differences

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.45, Booklassic

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• We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Long, Catholic

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• the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Disappointment, Firsts, First Time

  Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”

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• To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Art, Gay

  "From Grandmother with Love". Book by Becky Kelly and Patrick Regan, 2005.

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