~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._