“What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.”
Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857) Russian salon-holder
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 511.
“Be content and resigned to God's will.”
Robert E. Lee, in a letter to his wife (8 May 1861)
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