Alternate rest and labor long endure. -Ovid.

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There are pauses amidst study, and pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.-J. W. Alexander.

Rest unto our souls!-'tis all we want -the end of all our wishes and pursuits: we seek for it in titles, in riches and pleasures-climb up after it by ambition, come down again and stoop for it by avarice,-try all extremes; nor is it till after many miserable experiments, that we are convinced, at last, we have been seeking everywhere for it but where there is a prospect of finding it; and that is, within ourselves, in a meek and lowly disposition of heart. Sterne.

To will what God doth will, is the only science that gives us rest.-Longfellow.

RESTLESSNESS.-'Tis plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines: when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

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.

A restless mind, like a rolling stone, gathers nothing but dirt and mire. Little or no good will cleave to it; and it is sure to leave peace and quietness behind it.-Balguy.

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

RESURRECTION. - Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.-Luther.

The diamond that shines in the Saviour's crown shall beam in unquenched beauty, at last, on the forehead of every human soul, risen through grace to the immortality of heaven.

RETIREMENT. - To judge rightly of our own worth we should retire from the world so as to see both its pleasures and pains in their proper light and dimensions-thus taking the heart from off this world and its allurements, which so dishonor the understanding as to turn the wisest of men into fools and children.-Sterne.

He whom God hath gifted with the love of retirement, possesses, as it were, an extra sense. - Bulwer.

Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. Shakespeare.

Let me often to these solitudes retire, and in their presence reassure my feeble virtue. Bryant.

A man who can retire from the world to seek entertainment in his closet, has a thousand advantages of which other people have no idea. - He is master of his own company and pleasures, and can command either the one or the other according to his circumstances or temper. All nature is ready for his view, and all ages appear at his call. He can transport himself to the most distant regions, and enjoy the best and politest company that ever the world afforded.Hibernicus's Letters.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground, for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep its fruit until it be ripe. Chrysostom.

Nature I'll court in her sequestered haunts, by mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, and health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.Smollett.

Before you think of retiring from the world, be sure you are fit for retirement; in order to which it is necessary that you have a mind so composed by prudence, reason, and religion, that it may bear being looked into; a turn to rural life, and a love for study-Burgh.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.-Johnson.

A foundation of good sense, and a cultivation of learning, are required to give a seasoning to retirement, and make us taste its blessings.-Dryden.

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The blind and cowardly spirit of evil is forever telling you that evil things are pardonable, and you shall not die for them; and that good things are impossible, and you need not live for them.

woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. --Shakespeare.

RETRIBUTION. - Retribution is one of the grand principles in the divine administration of human affairs; a requital is imperceptible only to the wil fully unobservant. There is everywhere the working of the everlasting law of requital: man always gets as he gives.

-J. Foster.

God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but remember He pays in the end. Anne of Austria.

Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.Voltaire.

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Old age seizes upon ill-spent youth, like fire upon a rotten house.It was rotten before, and must have fallen of itself, so that it is only one ruin anticipating another.-South.

The more pure and righteous a moral being is, the more squarely must he antagonize, the more intensely must he hate, the more surely must he punish impurity and unrighteousness. Volcanic fire inside the globe, and forked lightning outside of it, are faint emblems of holy wrath. When a thoroughly bad man stands revealed only lightning is logical. He that sows the wind ought to reap the whirlwind.-R. D. Hitchcock.

Man never fastened one end of a chain around the neck of his brother, that God did not fasten the other end round the neck of the oppressor.Lamartine.

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

Nemesis is lame, but she is of colossal stature; 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.

God's mill grinds slow but sure.Herbert.

find some day, to your cost, they are untrue.-Ruskin. RETROSPECTION. Often a retrospect delights the mind.-Dante.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benediction. Wordsworth.

A man advanced in years, who thinks fit to look back upon his former life, and call that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, will find himself very young, if not in his infancy-Steele.

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From the sad years of life we sometimes do short hours, yea, minutes strike, keen, blissful, bright, never to be forgotten; which, through the dreary gloom of time o'erpast, shine like fair sunny spots on a wild waste.-Joanna Baillie.

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man, nor has one passed away which he is unwilling to remember: the period of his life seems prolonged by his good acts; and we may be said to live twice, when we can reflect with pleasure on the days that are gone.-Martial.

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." To-morrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.-Horace.

To look back to antiquity is one thing; to go back to it another. If we look back to it, it should be as those who are running a race, only to press forward the faster, and to leave the beaten way still further behind.-Colton.

REVENGE.- (See "INJURY," and "FORGIVENESS.")

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble; but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.-Bulwer.

Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.-Juvenal.

It is a work of prudence to prevent injury, and of a great mind, when done, not to revenge it. He that hath revenge in his power, and does not use it, is the great man; it is for low and vulgar spirits to transport themselves with vengeance. To endure injuries with a brave mind is one half the conquest.

By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.-Bacon.

Revenge is like a boomerang. Although for a time it flies in the direction in which it is hurled, it takes a sudden curve, and, returning, hits your own head the heaviest blow of all.

A spirit of revenge is the very spirit of the devil; than which nothing makes a man more like him, and nothing can be more opposite to the temper Christianity was designed to promote. If your revenge be not satisfied, it will give you torment now; if it be, it will give you greater hereafter. None is a greater self-tormentor than a malicious and revengeful man, who turns the poison of his own temper in upon himself. -J. M. Mason.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.-Bacon.

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

Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath-wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."-C. Sim

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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.-Jane Porter.

Revenge has ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision. -Shakespeare.

If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.-Newton.

The Turks carefully collect every scrap of paper that comes in their way, because the name of God may be written thereon.-Richter.

We treat God with irreverence by banishing him from our thoughts, not by referring to his will on slight occasions. Ruskin.

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence. Goethe.

Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. -Washington Allston.

Rather let my head stoop to the block, than these knees bow to any save to the God of heaven.-Shakespeare. Boyle, it is said, never mentioned the name of God without a visible and reverent pause in his discourse.

While it is undesirable that any man should receive what he has not examined, a far more frequent danger is that of flippant irreverence. Goethe.

Reverence is one of the signs of strength; irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things.The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be foresworn in the day of trial.

REVERIE. - Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.-Locke.

Reverie, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier. Victor Hugo.

Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.-Longfellow.

Do anything innocent rather than give yourself up to reverie. I can speak on this point from experience; for at one period of my life, I was a dreamer and castle-builder. Visions of the distant and future took the place of present duty and activity. I spent hours in reverie. The body suffered as much as the mind. The imagination threatened to inflame the passions, and I found, if I meant to be virtuous, I must dismiss my musings. The conflict was a hard one; but I resolved, prayed, resisted, sought refuge in occupation, and at length triumphed.-Channing.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. -Reverie is the child of extremes.Rivarol.

Both mind and heart, when given up to reverie and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.-C. Simmons.

Few habits are more injurious than musing, which differs from thinking as pacing one's chamber does from walking abroad. The mind learns nothing, and is not strengthened, but weakened, returning perpetually over the barren track. Where the thoughts are

sombre, the evil is doubly great, and not only time and vigor are squandered, but melancholy becomes fixed. It is really a disease, and the question how it should be treated is one of the most important in anthropology.-J. W. Alexander.

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

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.-J. R. Lowell.

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

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress. Wendell Phillips.

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.

Revolutions begin in the best heads, and run steadily down to the populace. -Metternich.

Too long denial of guaranteed right is sure to lead to revolution-bloody revolution, where suffering must fall upon the innocent as well as the guilty. -U. S. Grant.

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

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.

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 be 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.

Revolutions are not made, they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. Wendell Phillips.

Times and occasions and provocations will teach their own lessons. But with or without right, a revolution will be the very last resource of the thinking and the good.-Burke.

Let them call it mischief; when it's past and prospered, it will be virtue.Ben Jonson.

The working of revolutions 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.

It is far more easy to pull down than to build up, and to destroy than to preserve. Revolutions have on this account been falsely supposed to be fertile of great talent; as the dregs rise to the top during a fermentation, and the lightest est things are carried highest by the whirlwind.-Colton.

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.Whately.

The surest way to prevent seditions is to take away the matter of them; for if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. -Bacon.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dung-heaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.-Napoleon.

Those who give the first shock to a state are naturally the first to be overwhelmed in its ruin: The fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by the man who was the first to set it a-going; he only troubles the water for another's net.-Montaigne.

Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a

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twined, without the bleeding rent of thousand ties which to the heart of nature link it. Wrenched, perchance you'll mock a clumsy relic of forgotten days, while you have scattered in the dust, unseen, a thousand living crystals. Taljourd.

REWARD. - He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. Confucius.

Every duty brings its peculiar delight, every denial its appropriate compensation, every thought its recompense, every cross its crown; pay goes with performance as effect with cause. Meanness overreaches itself; vice vitiates whoever ndulges in it; the wicked wrong their own souls; generosity greatens; virtue exalts; charity transfigures; and holiness is the essence of angelhood. God does not require us to live on credit; he pays us what we earn as we earn it, good or evil, heaven or hell, according to our choice. Charles Mildmay.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. Congreve.

He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest. Cecil.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better. Penn.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.-Booker T. Washington.

RHETORIC. - Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed, and argument put in order. Jeremy Collier.

The best rules of rhetoric are, to speak intelligently; speak from the

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and stop when you've done. Tryon Edwards.

There is truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. Penn.

Mere rhetoric, in serious discourses, is like flowers in corn, pleasing to those