Part 84

One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better than his principles.--Laténa.

~Request.~--No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.--Cæsar.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.--Lavater.

~Resignation.~--O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.--Fénelon.

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.--Mountford.

A man that fortune's buffets and rewards has ta'en with equal thanks.--Shakespeare.

Trust in God, as Moses did, let the way be ever so dark; and it shall come to pass that your life at last shall surpass even your longing. Not, it may be, in the line of that longing, that shall be as it pleaseth God; but the glory is as sure as the grace, and the most ancient heavens are not more sure than that.--Robert Collyer.

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

"My will, not thine, be done," turned Paradise into a desert. "Thy will, not mine, be done," turned the desert into a paradise, and made Gethsemane the gate of heaven.--Pressense.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.--Dr. Vinet.

~Responsibility.~--Responsibility educates.--Wendell Phillips.

~Restlessness.~--The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity--a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.--Goethe.

Always driven towards new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age cast anchor for even a day?--Lamartine.

~Retribution.~--Nemesis is lame, but she is of colossal stature, like the gods; and sometimes, while her sword is not yet unsheathed, she stretches out her huge left arm and grasps her victim. The mighty hand is invisible, but the victim totters under the dire clutch.--George Eliot.

"One soweth and another reapeth" is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.--George Eliot.

~Revenge.~--Revenge at first, though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils.--Milton.

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.--Colton.

There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.--F. A. Durivage.

~Revery.~--In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.--Wordsworth.

~Revolution.~--The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.--Herder.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.--Mazzini.

All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.--Jefferson.

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution hut what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.--Ledru Rollin.

Revolution is the larva of civilization.--Victor Hugo.

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary! The violence of these outrages will always lie proportioned to the ferocity and ignorance of the people: and the ferocity and ignorance of the people will be proportioned to the oppression and degradation under which they have been accustomed to live.--Macaulay.

Let them call it mischief; when it's past and prospered, 't will be virtue.--Ben Jonson.

~Rhetoric.~--In composition, it is the art of putting ideas together in graceful and accurate prose; in speaking, it is the art of delivering ideas with propriety, elegance, and force; or, in other words, it is the science of oratory.--Locke.

Rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with a free expression, when they understand not reason.--Selden.