W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."
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Resignation
36 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Make sense who may. I switch off."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Resignation is a daily suicide."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you."
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"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?"
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"The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration."
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"That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted."
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"Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice."
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"It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations"
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"By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate."
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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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"A man must take the fat with the lean."
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"He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him."
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