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Resignation
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“He was resigned and on the whole patient, like a man with a very old illness.”
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“... he was small, dark, closed in that attitude of terrible resignation I recognized from my own childhood, and I knew that resignation to be the only defense, the only immunity in a world where children are often the martyrs.”
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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.”
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“... resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.”
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“Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.”
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“... the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.”