What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
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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.
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Here is my journey's end, here is my butt And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
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This day I breathèd first—time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end. My life is run his compass.
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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.
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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world ? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue our future lives will be less afflicted.
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The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
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If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
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I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
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I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death; the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me.
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Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.
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Things past redress are now with me past care.
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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
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Henceforth I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself "Enough, enough," and die.
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Henceforth I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself 'Enough, enough,' and die.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, That have but labored to attain this hour.
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Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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