Quotes with resignation

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  • Henry David Thoreau What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bertrand Russell 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.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Anthony Weiner I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Billy Collins If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Billy Collins The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Jean de la Fontaine 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
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • William Somerset Maugham We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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