Kiss the rod. [ William Shakespeare ]

The law of commonsense. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

That's best Which God sends.
'Twas His will: it is mine. [ Lord Lytton ]

Resignation is a daily suicide. [ Balzac ]

What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief. [ William Shakespeare ]

Resignation - a virgin with golden tears. [ Ch. Monselet ]

Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay,
while resignation gently slopes the way. [ Goldsmith ]

Fearless of fortune, and resigned to fate. [ Dryden ]

Let that please man which has pleased God. [ Seneca ]

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. [ Johnson ]

An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
Give him a little earth for charity! [ William Shakespeare ]

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade. [ Montaigne ]

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

But on he moves to meet his latter end,
Angels around befriending virtue's friend;
Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And all his prospects bright'ning to the last,
His heaven commences, ere the world be past! [ Goldsmith ]

But Heaven hath a hand in these events,
To whose high will we bound our calm contents. [ William Shakespeare ]

Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor;
And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. [ Cowper ]

While resignation gently slopes the way;
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past. [ Goldsmith ]

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. [ Professor Vinet ]

It is the Lord: let Him do what seemeth Him good. [ Bible ]

O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee. [ Fenelon ]

To will what God doth will, that is the only science
That gives us any rest. [ Malherbe ]

Well - peace to thy heart, though another's it be;
And health to that cheek, though it bloom I not for me. [ Thomas Moore ]

Believe that each day which shines upon you is the last. [ Horace ]

Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you. [ Epictetus ]

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them. [ Madame Necker ]

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned. [ Herder ]

As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [ Terence ]

Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow. [ William Shakespeare ]

One alleviation in misfortune is to endure and submit to necessity. [ Seneca ]

Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done is done. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

A man that fortune's buffets and rewards hast taken with equal thanks. [ William Shakespeare ]

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. [ Lady Blessington ]

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty. [ Hosea Ballou ]

I pray God that I may never find my will again.
Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet. [ Rutherford ]

Resignation is the name of the angel who carries most of our soul's burdens, [ J. L. Basford ]

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. [ Bible ]

Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects. [ De Quincey ]

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian, but his faith will discern a rainbow in it. [ Bishop Horne ]

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him. [ Seneca ]

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow. [ Pomfret ]

Even the best must own patience and resignation are the pillars of human peace on earth. [ Young ]

Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining. [ Thomson ]

Like the plants that throw their fragrance from the wounded part, breathe sweetness out of woe. [ Moore ]

There is nothing more allied to the barbarous and savage character than sullenness, concealment, and reserve. [ Parke Godwin ]

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

Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. [ Bible ]

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature. [ Shenstone ]

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. [ Seneca ]

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it. [ De Tocqueville ]

Whatever you suffer deservedly should be borne with resignation; the penalty that comes upon us undeservedly comes as a matter of just complaint. [ Ovid ]

There may be as much courage displayed in enduring with resignation the sufferings of the soul, as in remaining firm under the showers of shot from a battery. [ Napoleon I ]

Go on, spare no invectives, but open the spout of your eloquence, and see with what a calm, connubial resignation I will both hear and bow to the chastisement. [ Colley Cibber ]

There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover. [ Shenstone ]