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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.

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations.

Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.