Part 83

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.--J. Petit Senn.

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.--Shelley.

The ship retains her anchorage yet drifts with a certain range, subject to wind and tide. So we have for an anchorage the cardinal truths of the gospel.--Gladstone.

The best religion is the most tolerant.--Emile de Girardin.

~Remembrance.~--The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.--Cato.

Pleasure is the flower that fades; remembrance is the lasting perfume.--Boufflers.

~Remorse.~--Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.--Joubert.

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.--Rousseau.

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.--Shakespeare.

Truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.--Gray.

~Repartee.~--The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.--Molière.

~Repentance.~---Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.--Sterling.

He repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.--Quarles.

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.--Moore.

Is it not in accordance with divine order that every mortal is thrown into that situation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to his own view, that he may know them, acknowledge them, struggle against them, and put them away?--Anna Cora Ritchie.

Repentance is second innocence.--De Bonald.

~Repose.~--Repose is agreeable to the human mind; and decision is repose. A man has made up his opinions; he does not choose to be disturbed; and he is much more thankful to the man who confirms him in his errors, and leaves him alone, than he is to the man who refutes him, or who instructs him at the expense of his tranquillity.--Sydney Smith.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.--Plutarch.

~Reproach.~--Few love to hear the sins they love to act.--Shakespeare.

The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; it speaks at once to the imagination.--Mrs. Balfour.

~Republic.~--Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.--Walpole.

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion, might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers."--Heinrich Heine.

At twenty, every one is republican.--Lamartine.

~Reputation.~--Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, "the cheap defence and ornament of nations, and the nurse of manly exertions;" it produces more labor and more talent then twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius; and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy.--Sydney Smith.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.--Tacitus.

Reputation is but the synonym of popularity; dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.--Washington Allston.

My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age.--Bacon.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket.--Johnson.