Resignation

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Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well
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
While Resignation gently slopes away,
And all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past.

The Deserted Village
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