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«You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in and governed that body and soul which He took from the Virgin Mary.»
Author: William Law
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«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»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
(Poet)
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Art of Living, being bold, boisterous, bold, bolder, boldest, cheerful, courageous, fatalism, gay, gays, gay and, lightheartedly, recklessly, resignation, resignations, the art
«The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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graceful, leisure, repose, resignation, resignations, retirement, The Passions
«What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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confirmed, desperation, resignation