=Racine passera comme le café=--Racine will go
out of fashion like coffee. _Mme. de Sévigné._
=Rage avails less than courage.= _Fr. Pr._ 35
=Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.=
_Hannah More._
=Rage is mental imbecility.= _H. Ballou._
=Raggio d'asino non arriva al cielo=--The braying
of an ass does not reach heaven. _It. Pr._
=Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are
the beggar's robes and graceful insignia of
his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the
suit in which he is expected to show himself
in public.= _Lamb._
=Rail not in answer, but be calm, / For silence= 40
=yields a rapid balm; / Live it down!= _Dr.
Henry Rink._
=Railing and praising were his usual themes; /
And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; /
So over-violent or over-civil, / That every
man with him was god or devil.= _Dryden._
=Raillery is a mode of speaking in favour of one's
wit against one's good nature.= _Montaigne._
=Raillery is sometimes more insupportable than
wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries,
but it is ridiculous to be angry at a
jest.= _La Roche._
=Railway travelling is not travelling at all; it is
merely being sent to a place, and very little
different from becoming a parcel.= _Ruskin._
=Rainy days will surely come; / Take your= 45
=friend's umbrella home.= _Saying._
=Raise nae mair deils than ye're able to lay.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Raison d'état=--A reason of state. _Pr._
=Raison d'être=--The reason for a thing's existence.
=Raisonner sur l'amour, c'est perdre la raison=--To
reason about love is to lose reason. _Bouflers._
=Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth= 50
=to save a halfpenny.= _Lamb._
=Rami felicia poma ferentes=--Branches bearing
beauteous fruit. _Ovid._
=Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still
chains.= _Ruffini._
=Rank is a great beautifier.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the
gowd for a' that.= _Burns._
=Raphael wäre ein grosser Maler geworden,= 55
=selbst wenn er ohne Hände auf die Welt
gekommen wäre=--Raphael would have been a
great painter even if he had come into the world
without hands. _Lessing._
=Rapiamus, amici, / Occasionem de die=--Let us,
my friends, snatch our opportunity from the passing
day. _Hor._
=Rapt with zeal, pathetic, bold, and strong, /
Roll'd the full tide of eloquence along.= _Falconer._
=Rara avis in terris, nigroque similima cygno=--A
bird rarely seen on earth, and very much resembling
a black swan. _Juv._
=Rara est adeo concordia formæ / Atque pudicitiæ=--So
rare is the union of beauty with modesty. _Juv._
=Rara fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur=--Faith
and piety are rare among the men who
follow the camp. _Lucan._
=Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quæ= 5
=velis, et quæ sentias dicere licet=--Such was
the happiness of the times, that you might think
as you chose and speak as you thought. _Tac._
=Rare benevolence, the minister of God.= _Carlyle._
=Rari nantes in gurgite vasto=--Swimming one
here and another there in the vast abyss. _Virg._
=Rari quippe boni; numero vix sunt totidem
quot / Thebarum portæ, vel divitis ostia
Nili=--Rare indeed are the good; in number
they are scarcely as many as the gates of
Thebes or the mouths of the fertile Nile. _Juv._
=Rarity imparts a charm; thus early fruits and
winter roses are most prized; thus coyness
sets off an extravagant mistress, while a
door ever open tempts no suitor.= _Mart._
=Rarity / Of Christian charity / Under the sun.= 10
_T. Hood._
=Raro antecedentem scelestum / Deseruit pede
pœna claudo=--Rarely does punishment, with
halting foot, fail to overtake the criminal in his
flight. _Hor._
=Raro sermo illis, et magna libido tacendi=--They
seldom speak, and have a great conceit of holding
their tongues. _Juv._
=Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa /
Fortuna=--Common sense is generally rare in
that position of life, _i.e._, in high rank. _Juv._
=Rascals are always sociable, and the test of a
man's nobility is the small pleasure he has
in others' society.= _Schiller._
=Rasch tritt der Tod den Menschen an, / Es ist= 15
=ihm keine Frist gegeben, / Es stürzt ihn
mitten in der Bahn, / Es reisst ihn fort vom
vollen Leben. / Bereitet oder nicht; zu
gehen, / Er muss vor seinen Richter stehen=--Death
of a sudden arrests his victim, man;
there is no respite given; he falls upon him in
midday, and tears him away when life is at the
full. Ready to go or not, he must stand before
his judge. _Schiller._
=Rashness is the faithful but unhappy parent of
misfortune.= _Fuller._
=Rast' ich, so rost' ich=--Rest I, rust I. _Luther._
=Rast macht Rost=--Rest breeds rust. _Ger. Pr._
=Rathe Niemand ungebeten=--Advise no man unasked.
_Ger. Pr._
=Rathen ist leichter denn helfen=--To advise is 20
easier than to help. _Ger. Pr._
=Rathen ist nicht zwingen=--To advise is not to
compel. _Ger. Pr._
=Rather an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Rather assume thy right in silence and= _de
facto_, =than voice it with claims and challenges.=
_Bacon._
=Rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to
others that we know not of.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Rather find what beauty is than anxiously inquire= 25
=what it is.= _Goethe._
=Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.=
_Ben. Franklin._
=Rather let my head stoop to the block than
these knees bow to any save to the God of
heaven.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=Rather than be less, / Cared not to be at all.=
_Milton._
=Rather to do nothing than to do good is the
lowest state of a degraded mind.= _Johnson._
=Ratio decidendi=--The reason for deciding. 30
=Ratio et auctoritas, duo clarissima mundi
lumina=--Reason and authority, the two brightest
luminaries of the world. _Coke._
=Ratio et consilium propriæ ducis artes=--Thought
and deliberation are the qualities
proper to a general. _Tac._
=Ratio justifica=--The reason which justifies.
=Ratio quasi quædam lux lumenque vitæ=--Reason
is, as it were, the guide and light of life.
_Cic._
=Ratio suasoria=--The reason which persuades. 35
=Rauch ist alles irdsche Wesen; / Wie des
Dampfes Säule weht, / Schwinden alle Erdengrössen, /
Nur die Götter bleiben stät=--A
vapour is all earthly existence; as a column of
vapour it drifts along: vanish all earth's great
ones; only the gods remain stable. _Schiller._
=Raum für alle hat die Erde=--The earth is wide
enough for all. _Schiller._
=Raum, ihr Herrn, dem Flügelschlag / Einer
freien Seele=--Room, gentlemen, for a free soul
to clap its wings. _G. Herwegh._
=Raum ist in der kleinsten Hütte / Für ein
glücklich liebend Paar=--There is room in the
smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. _Schiller._
=Ravish'd with the whistling of a name.= _Pope._ 40
=Rays must converge to a point in order to
glow intensely.= _Blair._
=Re infecta=--The business being unfinished. _Cæs._
=Re ipsa repperi, / Facilitate nihil esse homini
melius, neque clementia=--I have learned by
experience that nothing is more advantageous to
a man than complaisance and clemency of temper.
_Ter._
=Re opitulandum non verbis=--We should assist
by deeds, not in words. _Pr._
=Re secunda fortis, dubia fugax=--In prosperity 45
courageous, in danger timid. _Phæd._
=Read Homer once, and you can read no more, /
For all books else appear so mean, so poor, /
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to
read, / And Homer will be all the books you
need.= _Buckingham._
=Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.= _Book
of Common Prayer._
=Read my little fable: / He that runs may read. /
Most can raise the flowers now, / For all
have got the seed.= _Tennyson._
=Read not books alone, but men, and amongst
them chiefly thyself; if thou find anything
questionable there, use the commentary of a
severe friend rather than the gloss of a
sweet-lipped flatterer; there is more profit
in a distasteful truth than deceitful sweetness.=
_Quarles._
=Read not to contradict and confute, nor to= 50
=believe and take for granted, nor to find
talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.=
_Bacon._
=Read nothing that you do not care to remember,
and remember nothing you do not mean
to use.= _Prof. Blackie, to young men._
=Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and
curiosity to read.= _Johnson._
=Reader, attend--whether thy soul / Soars
fancy's flights beyond the pole, / Or darkling
grubs this earthly hole / In low pursuit; /
Know, prudent, cautious self-control /
Is wisdom's root.= _Burns._
=Reader, if thou an oft-told tale wilt trust, /
Thou'lt gladly do and suffer what thou must.=
_Henry Marten._
=Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the= 5
=dewy grass at sunrise.= _Lowell._
=Reading furnishes us only with the materials
of knowledge; it is thinking makes what
we read ours.= _Locke._
=Reading for the sense= (in Shakespeare's plays)
=will best bring out the rhythm.= _Emerson._
=Reading is thinking with another's head instead
of one's own.= _Schopenhauer._
=Reading makes a full man, conference a ready
man, and writing an exact man. And therefore
if a man write little, he had need have a
great memory; if he confer little, have a
present wit; and if he read little, have much
cunning to seem to know that he doth not.=
_Bacon._
=Reading without purpose is sauntering, not= 10
=exercise.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Real action is in silent moments.= _Emerson._
=Real friends are our greatest joy and our
greatest sorrow.= _Fénelon._
=Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how
dearly we pay for its counterfeit!= _H. Ballou._
=Real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance
with facts, which only makes a pedant,
but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher.=
_Buckle._
=Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover= 15
=as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy
hides the rays of the one and the wounds of
the other.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Real ugliness in either sex means always some
kind of hardness of heart or vulgarity of
education.= _Ruskin._
=Real worth floats not with people's fancies, no
more than a rock in the sea rises and falls
with the tide.= _Fuller._
=Real worth requires no interpreter; its everyday
deeds form its blazonry.= _Chamfort._
=Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than
fiction; nay, it is in the right interpretation
of reality and history that poetry consists.=
_Carlyle._
=Reality is, no doubt, greater and more vital= 20
=to know, in so real a world and life, than any
fiction; and the thoughts of God, which the
facts are, are infinitely more precious than
the fancies of men about them, or even
according to them; yet is man's power of
fancying, or fantasying, in harmony with
the fact, the measure of his knowledge of it
and vital relationship to it, and the divinely
appointed means withal whereby the fact
itself is brought home to our affections.= _Ed._
=Reality surpasses imagination; and we see
breathing, brightening, and moving before
our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than
any we ever beheld in the land of dreams.=
_Goethe._
=Reason and experience both forbid us to expect
that national morality can prevail in
exclusion of religious principle.= _Washington._
=Reason can never be popular. Passions and
feelings may become popular; but reason
always remains the sole property of a few
eminent individuals.= _Goethe._
=Reason can no more influence the will and
operate as a motive, than the eyes, which
show a man his road, can enable him to move
from place to place, or than a ship provided
with a compass can sail without a wind.=
_Whately._
=Reason cannot show itself more reasonable= 25
=than to cease reasoning on things above
reason.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Reason gains all men by compelling none.=
_Aaron Hill._
=Reason has done, what it can do, when it discovers
and draws up the law; to execute this
law is reserved for him who feels the obligation
of it, and has the due firmness of purpose.=
_Schiller._
=Reason has only to do with the becoming, the
living; but understanding with the become,
the already fixed, that it may make use of
it.= _Goethe._
=Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils,
and how dim--nay, blind--thou art in preventing
them!= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it= 30
=makes; its usefulness takes the place of
beauty.= _Joubert._
=Reason is a historian, but the passions are
the actors.= _Rivarol._
=Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook
off.= _Swift._
=Reason is directed to the process= (_das Werdende_),
=understanding to the product= (_das
Gewordene_). =The former is nowise concerned
about the whither, or the latter about the
whence.= _Goethe._
=Reason is like the sun, of which the light is
constant, uniform, and lasting; fancy, a
meteor of bright but transitory lustre, irregular
in its motion and delusive in its direction.=
_Johnson._
=Reason is progressive; instinct, stationary.= 35
=Five thousand years have added no improvement
to the hive of the bee nor the
house of the beaver.= _Colton._
=Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common
law itself is nothing else but reason.= _Coke._
=Reason= (_Vernunft_) =is the only true despot.=
_Rahel._
=Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the
test of truth.= _Warburton._
=Reason itself is true and just, but the reason
of every particular man is weak and wavering.=
_Swift._
=Reason lies between bridle and spur.= _It. Pr._ 40
=Reason, looking upwards, and carried to the
true above, realises a delight in wisdom,
unknown to the other parts of our nature.=
_Plato._
=Reason raise o'er instinct as you can; / In this
'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.= _Pope._
=Reason requires culture to expand it. It resembles
the fire concealed in the flint, which
only shows itself when struck with the steel.=
_Gordil._
=Reason serves when pressed, but honest instinct
comes a volunteer.= _Pope._
=Reason should direct, and appetite obey.= _Cic._
=Reason teaches us to be silent; the heart
teaches us to speak.= _Jean Paul._
=Reason's a staff for age when Nature's gone; /
But youth is strong enough to walk alone.=
_Dryden._
=Reason's glimmering ray / Was lent, not to= 5
=assure our doubtful way, / But guide us
upward to a better day.= _Dryden._
=Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, /
Lie in three words,--health, peace, and competence.=
_Pope._
=Reasonable, or sensible, people are always the
best Conversation's Lexicon.= _Goethe._
=Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting
against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner,
without visibly affecting the prejudice. Argument
cannot do the work of instruction any
more than blows can take the place of sunlight.=
_Mildmay._
=Reasoning banishes reason.= _Molière._
=Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon,= 10
=but similitudes are the windows which
give the best light.= _Fuller._
=Rebellentreue ist wankend=--Fidelity among
rebels is unsteady. _Schiller._
=Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.= _Inscription
on a cannon._
=Rebuke ought to have a grain more of salt
than of sugar.= _Pr._
=Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.=
_Pr._
=Rebus angustis animosus atque / Fortis appare;= 15
=sapienter idem / Contrahes vento
nimium secundo / Turgida vela=--Wisely show
yourself spirited and resolute when perils press
you; likewise reef your sails when they swell too
much by a favouring breeze. _Hor._
=Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; /
Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest=--It is
easy in misfortune to despise life; but he does
bravely who can endure misery. _Mart._
=Rebus secundis etiam egregios duces insolescere=--In
the hour of prosperity even the best
generals are apt to be haughty and insolent.
_Tac._
=Receive what cheer you may; / The night
is long that never finds the day.= _Macb._,
iv. 3.
=Receiving a new truth is adding a new sense.=
_Liebig._
=Recepto / Dulce mihi furere est amico=--It is 20
delightful to indulge in extravagance on the
return of a friend. _Hor._
=Rechauffé=--Heated again; stale. _Fr._
=Recherché=--Sought for; much esteemed.
=Recht geht vor Macht=--Right goes before might.
_Count v. Schwerin._
=Recht stets behält das Schicksal, denn das
Herz, / In uns ist sein gebietrischer Vollzieher=--Fate
always carries its point, for the
heart in us is its imperious executor. _Schiller._
[Greek: rechthen de te nêpios egnô]--What has happened 25
even the fool knows. _Homer._
=Recipiunt feminæ sustentacula a nobis=--Women
receive supports from us. _Motto of the Pattenmakers'
Company._
=Reckless youth makes ruefu' age.= _Sc. Pr._
=Reckon no vice so small that you may commit
it, and no virtue so small that you may overlook
it.= _Confucius._
=Reckon what is in a man, not what is on him,
if you would know whether he is rich or poor.=
_Ward Beecher._
=Reckoners without their host must reckon= 30
=twice.= _Pr._
=Recommending secrecy where a dozen of
people are acquainted with the circumstance
to be concealed, is only putting the
truth in masquerade, for the story will be
circulated under twenty different shapes.=
_Scott._
=Recompense injury with justice, and recompense
kindness with kindness.= _Confucius._
=Recompense to no man evil for evil.= _St. Paul._
=Recta actio non erit, nisi recta fuit voluntas,
ab hac enim est actio. Rursus, voluntas
non erit recta, nisi habitus animi rectus
fuerit, ab hoc enim est voluntas=--An action
will not be right unless the intention is right, for
from it comes the action. Again, the intention
will not be right unless the state of the mind has
been right, for from it proceeds the intention. _Sen._
=Recte et suaviter=--Uprightly and mildly. _M._ 35
=Rectius vives, Licini, neque altum / Semper
urgendo, neque, dum procellas / Cautus horrescis,
nimium premendo / Littus iniquum=--You
will live more prudently, Licinius, by neither
always keeping out at sea, nor, while you warily
shrink from storms, hugging too closely the
treacherous shore. _Hor._
=Rectus in curia=--Upright in the court, _i.e._, having
come out of it with clean hands. _L._
=Reculer pour mieux sauter=--To step back in
order to leap better. _Fr._
=Red as a roost-cock.= _S. Devon Pr._
=Reddere personæ scit convenientia cuique=--He 40
knows how to assign to each character what
it is proper for him to think and say. _Hor., of a
dramatic poet._
=Reddere qui voces jam scit puer, et pede certo /
Signat humum, gestit paribus colludere, et
iram / Colligit ac ponit temere, et mutatur
in horas=--The boy who just knows how to talk
and treads the ground with firm foot, delights
to play with his mates, is easily provoked and
easily appeased, and changes every hour. _Hor._
=Rede wenig, rede wahr. Zehre wenig, zahle
baar=--Speak little, speak true. Spend little,
pay cash down. _Ger. Pr._
=Redeat miseris, abeat fortuna superbis=--May
fortune revisit the wretched, and forsake the
proud! _Hor._
=Reden ist Silber und Schweigen ist Gold=--Speech
is silver and silence is gold. _Old
Ger. Pr._
=Reden kommt von Natur, Schweigen vom= 45
=Verstande=--Speaking comes from nature, silence
from discretion. _Ger. Pr._
=Redeunt Saturnia regna=--The golden age (_lit._
the reign of Saturn) is returning.
=Redit agricolis labor actus in orbem, / Atque
in se sua per vestigia volvitur annus=--The
husbandman's toil returns in a circle, and the
year rolls round in its former footsteps. _Virg._
=Redlichkeit gedeiht in jedem Stande=--Honesty
prospers in every condition of life. _Schiller._
=Reductio ad absurdum=--A reduction of an adversary's
conclusion to an absurdity.
=Refinement that carries us away from our
fellow-men is not God's refinement.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Reflect that life, like every other blessing,
derives its value from its use alone.= _Johnson._
=Reflect upon your present blessings, of which
every man has many--not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some.=
_Dickens._
=Reflection dissolves reverie and burns her
delicate wings.= _Amiel._
=Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative;= 5
=conservatism goes for comfort, reform for
truth.= _Emerson._
=Reform is not joyous but grievous; no single
man can reform himself without stern suffering
and stern working; how much less can
a nation of men.= _Carlyle._
=Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
Once well at home, how will it radiate outwards,
irrepressible, into all that we touch
and handle, speak and work; kindling ever
new light by incalculable contagion; spreading,
in geometric ratio, far and wide; doing
good only, wherever it spreads, and not evil.=
_Carlyle._
=Reformers= (_Reformatorische Geister_) =do not step
into the arena amid a flourish of drums and
trumpets; they must make their debut rather
under the badge of the cross, and have been
cradled at their birth in a manger; poverty
and a humble pedigree is all their inheritance,
and their childhood is never touched
or shone upon by the glitter= (_Glanze_) =of the
world.= _K. Fischer._
=Reforms are generally most unpopular where
most needed.= _Martin._
=Refricare cicatricem=--To open a wound, or an 10
old sore, afresh.
=Regard not dreams, since they are but the
images of our hopes and fears.= _Cato._
=Regard not much who is for thee or who
against thee; but give all thy care to this,
that God be with thee in everything thou
doest.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Reges dicuntur multis urgere culullis, / Et
torquere mero, quem perspexisse laborent, /
An sit amicitia dignus=--Kings are said to press
with many a cup, and test with wine the man
whom they desire to try whether he is worthy
of their friendship. _Hor._
=Regia, crede mihi, res est, succurrere lapsis=--It
is a right kingly act, believe me, to succour
the fallen. _Ovid._
=Regibus boni quam mali suspectiores sunt,= 15
=semperque his aliena virtus formidolosa est=--Good
men are more suspected by kings than
bad men; and virtue in other men is to them
always a source of dread. _Sall._
=Régime=--Form of government. _Fr._
=Regium donum=--A royal gift.
=Regnare nolo, liber ut non sim mihi=--I would
not be a king and forfeit my liberty. _Phædr._
=Regum æquabat opes animis; seraque revertens /
Nocte domum, dapibus mensas onerabat
inemptis=--He equalled the wealth of kings
in contentment of mind; and at night returning
home, would load his board with unbought
dainties. _Virg., of the husbandman._
=Reichen giebt man, Armen nimmt man=--We 20
give to the rich, we take from the poor. _Ger. Pr._
=Reine d'un jour=--Queen for a day. _Fr._
=Reipublicæ forma laudari facilius quam evenire,
et si evenit, haud diuturna esse potest=--It is
more easy to praise a republican form of government
than to establish it; and when it is established,
it cannot be of long duration. _Tac._
=Reisst den Menschen aus seinen Verhältnissen;
und was er dann ist, nur das ist er=--Tear
man out of his outward circumstances; and
what he then is, that only is he. _Seume._
=Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have
the miracle of Christ himself.= _Bovee._
=Rejoice in joyous things--nor overmuch / Let= 25
=grief thy bosom touch / Midst evil, and still
bear in mind / How changeful are the ways
of humankind.= _Archilochus._
=Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let
thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy
youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart,
and in the sight of thine eyes; but know
thou that for all these things God will bring
thee into judgment.= _Bible._
=Rejoice that you have still long to live before
the thought comes to you that there is
nothing more in the world to see.= _Goethe._
=Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep
with them that weep.= _St. Paul._
=Relata refero=--I tell the story as it was told to me.
=Relegare bona religionibus=--To bequeath one's 30
property for religious purposes. _L._
=Relever des bagatelles=--To give importance to
trifles.
=Relicta non bene parmula=--Having ingloriously
left my shield behind. _Hor._
=Religentem esse oportet, religiosum nefas=--A
man should be religious, not superstitious.
_Quoted by Aul. Gell._
=Religion and education are not a match for
evil without the grace of God.= _Haydon._
=Religion and morality, as they now stand,= 35
=compose a practical code of misery and servitude....
How would morality, dressed up
in stiff stays and finery, start from her own
disgusting image, should she look into the
mirror of Nature!= _Shelley._
=Religion bids man prefer the endurance of a
lesser evil before a greater, and nature
itself does no less.= _South._
=Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, /
And unawares morality expires.= _Pope._
=Religion cannot change, though we do.= _Jeremy
Taylor._
=Religion cannot rise above the state of the
votary. Heaven always bears some proportion
to earth.= _Emerson._
=Religion contains infinite sadness. If we are= 40
=to love God, he must be in distress= (_lit._, in
need of help). _Novalis. See_ Matt., xxvii. 46.
=Religion des Kreuzes, nur du verknüpfest, in
einem / Kranze der Demut und Kraft doppelte
Palme zugleich=--Religion of the Cross!
only thou unitest in one wreath together the twofold
palm of humility and power. _Platen._
=Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the
present comfort of having done our duty;
and for the rest, it offers us the best security
that heaven can give.= _Tillotson._
=Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, / Needs
only to be seen to be admired.= _Cowper._
=Religion, if it be true, is central truth; and all
knowledge which is not gathered round it,
and quickened and illuminated by it, is hardly
worth the name.= _Channing._
=Religion implies revelation.= _R. D. Hitchcock._
=Religion is a fire which example keeps alive,
and which goes out if not communicated.=
_Joubert._
=Religion is a higher and supernatural life,
mystical in its roots and practical in its
fruits.= _Amiel._
=Religion is again here, for whoever will piously
struggle upward, and sacredly, sorrowfully
refuse to speak lies, which indeed will mostly
mean refuse to speak at all on that topic.=
_Carlyle._
=Religion is an everlasting lodestar, that beams= 5
=the brighter in the heavens the darker here
on earth grows the night.= _Carlyle._
=Religion is as necessary to reason as reason
to religion.= _Washington._
=Religion is life, philosophy is thought.... We
need both thought and life, and we need that
the two shall be in harmony.= _J. F. Clarke._
=Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy,
but a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble
engagement.= _Joubert._
=Religion is not a dogma nor an emotion, but
a service.= _R. D. Hitchcock._
=Religion is not a doubt, but a certainty,--or= 10
=else a mockery and horror.= _Carlyle._
=Religion is not a method, but a life.= _Amiel._
=Religion is not an end, but a means.= _Goethe._
=Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its
own majesty.= _Goethe._
=Religion is nothing if it is not everything; if
existence is not filled with it.= _Mme. de
Staël._
=Religion is the basis of civil society.= _Burke._ 15
=Religion is the best armour in the world, but
the worst cloak.= _Bunyan._
=Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy; on
whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming
in either to quarrel, and most so
about their inheritance.= _Landor._
=Religion is the highest humanity= (_Humanität_)
=of man.= _Herder._
=Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the
world. It alone will gentilise, if unmixed
with cant.= _Coleridge._
=Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude= 20
=can understand and adopt.= _Joubert._
=Religion is the spice which is meant to keep
life from corruption.= _Bacon._
=Religion is universal, theology is exclusive;
religion is humanitarian, theology is sectarian;
religion unites mankind, theology
divides it; religion is love--broad and all-comprising
as God's love, theology preaches
love and practises bigotry; religion looks
to the moral worth of man, theology to his
creed and denomination.= _M. Lilienthal._
=Religion lies more in walk than in talk.=
_Pr._
=Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on
earth, must have a body as well as a soul.=
_Colton._
=Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot= 25
=be grafted and keep its wild beauty.=
_Emerson._
=Religion or worship is the attitude of those who
see that, against all appearances, the nature
of things works for truth and right for ever.=
_Emerson._
=Religion, poetry, is not dead; it will never die.
Its dwelling and birthplace is in the soul of
man, and it is eternal as the being of man.
In any point of space, in any section of time,
let there be a living man; and there is an
infinitude above him and beneath him, and
an eternity encompasses him on this hand
and on that; and tones of sphere-music and
tidings from loftier worlds will flit round him,
if he can but listen, and visit him with holy
influences, even in the thickest press of trivialities
or the din of busiest life.= _Carlyle._
=Religion presents few difficulties to the humble,
many to the proud, innumerable ones to the
vain.= _Hare._
=Religion primarily means obedience; bending
to something or some one. To be bound,
or in bonds, as apprentice; to be bound, or
in bonds, by military oath; to be bound,
or in bonds, as a servant of man; to be
bound, or in bonds, under the yoke of God.=
_Ruskin._
=Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science= 30
=only applies the meaning to the course of circumstances.=
_Tolstoi._
=Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual
incident in it.= _Disraeli._
=Religion without morality is a superstition and
a curse; and anything like an adequate and
complete morality without religion is impossible.=
_Mark Hopkins._
=Religion would frame a just man; Christ would
make a whole man. Religion would save a
man; Christ would make him worth saving.=
_Ward Beecher._
=Religionen sind Kinder der Unwissenheit, die
ihre Mutter nicht lange überleben=--Religions
are the children of ignorance, and they do not
long outlive their mother. _Schopenhauer._
=Religions are not proved, are not established,= 35
=are not overthrown, by logic. They are, of
all the mysteries of nature and the human
mind, the most mysterious and inexplicable;
they are of instinct, and not of reason.= _Lamartine._
=Religious contention is the devil's harvest.=
_La Fontaine._
=Religious zeal leads to cleanliness, cleanliness
to purity, purity to godliness, godliness to
humility, humility to the fear of sin.= _Rabbi
Pinhas-Ben-Jair._
=Rem acu tetigit=--He has hit the nail on the head
(_lit._ touched it with a needle-point).
=Rem, facias rem, / Si possis recte, si non, quocunque
modo rem=--A fortune, make a fortune,
honestly if you can; if not, make it by any
means. _Hor._
=Rem tu strenuus auge=--Labour assiduously to 40
increase your property. _Hor._
="Remain content in the station in which Providence
has placed you," is on the whole a
good maxim, but it is peculiarly for home
use. That your neighbour should, or should
not, remain content with his position is not
your business; but it is very much your
business to remain content with your own.=
_Ruskin._
=Remark how many are better off than you are;
consider how many are worse.= _Sen._
=Remember Atlas was weary.= _Fuller._
=Remember now thy creator in the days of thy
youth.= _Bible._
=Remember, now, when you meet your antagonist,
to do everything in a mild agreeable
manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at
the same time, as polished as your sword.=
_Sheridan._
=Remember that all tricks are either knavish or
childish.= _Johnson._
=Remember that the time once yours can never
be so again.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Remember that with every breath we draw, an
ethereal stream of Lethe runs through our
whole being, so that we have but a partial
recollection of our joys, and scarcely any of
our sorrows.= _Goethe._
=Remember that you are an actor in a drama= 5
=of such sort as the Author chooses. If
short, then in a short one; if long, then in a
long one. If it be His pleasure that you
should act a poor man, see that you act it
well; or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private
citizen. For this is your business, to act
well the given part; but to choose it, belongs
to another.= _Epictetus._
=Remember this: that your conscience is not a
law--no; God and reason made the law, and
has placed conscience within you to determine.=
_Sterne._
=Remember thy prerogative is to govern, and
not to serve, the things of this world.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=Remember your failures are the seed of your
most glorious successes. Despond if you
must, but don't despair.= _Anon._
=Remembrance and reflection how allied! / What
thin partitions sense from thought divide!=
_Pope._
=Remembrance= (_Erinnerung_) =is the only Paradise= 10
=from which we cannot be driven.= _Jean
Paul._
=Remembrance makes the poet; 'tis the past, /
Lingering within him with a keener sense /
Than is upon the thoughts of common men, /
Of what has been, that fills the actual world /
With unreal likenesses of lovely shapes, /
That were and are not.= _L. E. Landon._
=Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, /
Swells at my breast, and turns the past to
pain.= _Goldsmith._
=Remis velisque=--With oars and sails; with tooth
and nail. _Pr._
=Remis ventisque=--With oars and wind.
=Remorse is as the heart in which it grows: /= 15
=If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews / Of
true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, /
It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost,
/ Weeps only tears of poison.= _Coleridge._
=Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid.=
_Cowper._
=Remote from man, with God he passed his
days; / Prayer all his business, all his
pleasure praise.= _Parnell._
=Remove not the ancient land-mark.= _Bible._
=Remove the cause, and the effect will cease.= 20
_Pr._
=Renascentur=--They will rise again. _M._
=Render to all their dues.= _St. Paul._
=Render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's,
and to God the things that are God's.= _Jesus._
=Renounce, thou must= (_sollst_) =renounce! That
is the song which sounds for ever in the ears
of every one, which every hour sings to us
hoarsely our whole life long.= _Goethe in
"Faust."_
=Renovate animos=--Renew your courage. _M._ 25
=Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of
it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skilful
conduct and various artificial means, make
a sort of name for himself; but if the inner
jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not
last a day.= _Goethe._
=Rente viagère=--An annuity. _Fr._
=Rentes=--Funds bearing interest; stocks. _Fr._
=Rentier=--A fund-holder. _Fr._
=Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose= 30
=with a double edge. It is the highest order
of wit, as it bespeaks the coolest yet quickest
exercise of genius, at a moment when the
passions are roused.= _Colton._
=Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the
grave in which the past is laid.= _J. Sterling._
=Repentance costs very dear.= _Pr._
=Repentance hath a purifying power, and every
tear is of a cleansing virtue; but these penitential
clouds must be still kept dropping;
one shower will not suffice; for repentance
is not one single action, but a course.= _South._
=Repentance is accepted remorse.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Repentance is good, but innocence is better.= _Pr._ 35
=Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life
ensuing.= _Tempest_, iii. 3.
=Repentance is nothing else but a renunciation
of our will, and a controlling of our fancies,
which lead us which way they please.= _Montaigne._
=Repentance is the daughter of over-haste.= _M.
Beer._
=Repentance is the May of the virtues.= _Chinese
Pr._
=Repentance won't cure mischief.= _Gael. Pr._ 40
=Repente dives nemo factus est bonus=--No good
man ever became suddenly rich. _Pub. Syr._
=Reperit Deus nocentem=--God finds out the guilty
man.
=Reply with wit to gravity, and with gravity to
wit.= _Colton._
=Réponse sans réplique=--An answer that does not
admit of reply. _Fr._
=Report makes crows blacker than they are.= _Pr._ 45
=Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the
gentleman--repose in energy. The Greek
battle-pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever
violent actions engaged, retain a serene
aspect.= _Emerson._
=Repose and happiness is what thou covetest,
but these are only to be obtained by labour.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a
picture.= _Hazlitt._
=Repose is the cradle of power.= _J. G. Holland._
=Repose without stagnation is the state most= 50
=favourable to happiness. "The great felicity
of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbation."=
_Bovee._
=Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium;
if it be improperly administered, it will do
harm instead of good.= _H. Mann._
=Reproof never does a wise man harm.= _Pr._
=Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye.=
_S. Lover._
=Reprove thy friend privately; commend him
publicly.= _Solon._
=Republics end with luxury; monarchies, with
poverty.= _Montesquieu._
=Reputation is an idle and false imposition, oft= 5
=got without merit, and lost without deserving;
you have lost no reputation at all unless
you repute yourself such a loser.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Reputation is commonly measured by the acre.=
_Pr._
=Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle,
of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily
blown out, but it is the light by which the
world looks for and finds merit.= _Lowell._
=Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.=
_St. Evermond._
=Reputation is what men and women think of
us. Character is what God and angels know
of us.= _Thomas Paine._
=Reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have= 10
=lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal
part of myself, and what remains is bestial.=
_Othello_, ii. 3.
=Reputation serves to virtue as light does to
a picture.= _Pr._
=Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine=--Grant
them eternal rest, O Lord.
=Requiescat in pace=--Let him rest in peace.
=Rerum cognitio vera, e rebus ipsis est=--The
true knowledge of things is from the things themselves.
_Scaliger._
=Res amicos invenit=--Money finds friends. _Plaut._ 15
=Res angusta domi=--Straitened circumstances
at home. _Juv._
=Res est blanda canor; discant cantare puellæ=--Singing
is a charming accomplishment: let
girls learn to sing. _Ovid._
=Res est ingeniosa dare=--To give requires good
sense. _Ovid._
=Res est sacra miser=--A man overwhelmed by
misfortune is a sacred object. _Sen._
=Res est solliciti plena timoris amor=--Love is 20
full of anxious fears. _Ovid._
=Res gestæ=--Exploits; transactions.
=Res in cardine est=--The affair is at a crisis (_lit._
on the hinge).
=Res judicata=--A case decided.
=Res nolunt diu male administrari=--Things refuse
to be mismanaged long.
=Res rustica=--A rural affair. _Cic._ 25
=Res severa est verum gaudium=--True joy is an
earnest thing.
=Res sunt humanæ flebile ludibrium=--Human
affairs are a jest to be wept over.
=Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, / To
waft a feather or to drown a fly.= _Young._
=Resentment gratifies him who intended an
injury, and pains him unjustly who did not
intend it.= _Johnson._
=Resentment, indeed, may remain, perhaps= 30
=cannot be quite extinguished in the noblest
minds; but revenge never will harbour there.=
_Pope._
=Resentment seems to have been given us by
Nature for defence, and for defence only; it
is the safeguard of justice and the security
of innocence.= _Adam Smith._
=Reserve the master-blow.= _Pr._
=Resignation is putting God between one's self
and one's grief.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways
are heaven's ways.= _Lessing._
=Resist not evil.= _Jesus._ 35
=Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.= _St.
James._
=Resistance ought never to be thought of but
when an utter subversion of the laws of the
realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution,
and no redress can otherwise be
hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for
ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the
law as the highest offence.= _Walpole._
=Resolution is independent of great age, but
without it one lives a hundred years in vain.=
_Chinese Pr._
=Resolution will sometimes relax, and diligence
will sometimes be interrupted; but let no
accidental surprise or deviation, whether
short or long, dispose you to despondency.=
_Johnson._
=Resolutions are well kept when they jump= 40
=with inclination.= _Goldsmith._
=Resolve, resolve, and to be men aspire. / Exert
that noblest privilege, alone / Here to mankind
indulged; control desire: / Let godlike
Reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak
the commanding word "I will!" and it is
done.= _Thomson._
=Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.= _Dryden._
=Respect a man, he will do the more.= _Pr._
=Respect for one's parents is the highest of the
duties of civil life.= _Chinese Pr._
=Respect for others is the first condition of= 45
="savoir-vivre."= _Amiel._
=Respect is better procured by exacting than
soliciting it.= _Lord Greville._
=Respect the burden.= _Napoleon._
=Respect us human, and relieve us poor.= _Pope._
=Respect yourself, or no one else will respect
you.= _Pr._
=Respectable mediocrity offends nobody.= 50
_Brougham._
=Respice finem=--Look to the end.
=Respicere exemplar vitæ morumque jubebo /
Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere
voces=--I would recommend the learned imitator
to study closely his model in life and manners, and
thence to draw his expressions to the life. _Hor._
=Respondeat superior=--Let the principal answer.
_L._
=Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity
and power.= _J. G. Holland._
=Rest and be thankful.= _Inscription on a wayside-seat._ 55
=Rest and success are fellows.= _Pr._
=Rest and undisturbed content have now no
place on earth, nor can the greatest affluence
of worldly good procure them, ... they
are peculiar to the love and fruition of God
alone.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Rest is for the dead.= _Carlyle._
=Rest is good after the work is done.= _Dan. Pr._
=Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.= _Plutarch._ 60
=Rest is won only by work.= _Pr._
=Rest not in an ovation, but in a triumph over
thy passions.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Rest not upon scattered counsels, for they will
rather distract and mislead than settle and
direct.= _Bacon._
=Rest! rest! Shall I not have all eternity to
rest in?= _Arnauld._
=Rest thy unrest in England's lawful earth.=
_Rich. III._, iv. 4.
=Restat iter cœlo: cœlo tentabimus ire; / Da
veniam cœpto, Jupiter alte, meo=--There remains
a way through the heavens; through the
heavens we will attempt to go. High Jupiter,
pardon my bold design. _Ovid, in the name of
Dædalus when he escaped from the labyrinth on
wings._
=Restore to God his due in tithe and time: /= 5
=A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate.=
_George Herbert._
=Restraint and discipline, examples of virtue
and of justice, these are what form the education
of the world.= _Burke._
=Restraint and obstruction= (_la gêne_) =constitute
the principle of movement.= _Renan._
=Résumé=--Recapitulation; summary. _Fr._
=Resurgam=--I shall rise again. _M._
=Retinens vestigia famæ=--Retracing the footsteps 10
of fame. _M._
=Return unto me, and I will return unto you,
saith the Lord of hosts.= _Bible._
=Revelation may not need the help of reason,
but man does, even when in possession of
revelation. Reason may be described as the
candle in the man's hand, to which revelation
brings the necessary flame.= _Simms._
=Revelation nowhere burns more purely and
more beautifully than in the New Testament.=
_Goethe._
=Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter erelong
back on itself recoils.= _Milton._
=Revenge barketh only at the stars, and spite= 15
=spurns at that she cannot reach.= _Socrates._
=Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and
the sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee,
which in her anger envenometh the flesh
and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone
ever after.= _Bp. Hall._
=Revenge converts a little right into a great
wrong.= _Ger. Pr._
=Revenge has no limits, for sin has none.= _Fr.
Hebbel._
=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._
="Revenge is a kind of wild justice." It is so,= 20
=but without this wild austere stock there
would be no justice in the world.= _Burke._
=Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which, the
more man's nature runs to, the more ought
law to weed it out.= _Bacon._
=Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of
justice.= _Johnson._
=Revenge is an inheritance of weak souls.=
_Körner._
=Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful
food it feeds on; its delight is murder,
and its satiety despair.= _Schiller._
=Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject= 25
=mind.= _Joubert._
=Revenge of a wrong only makes another
wrong.= _Spurgeon._
=Revenons à nos moutons=--Let us come back to
our subject (_lit._ sheep). _Pierre Blanchet._
=Reverence for human worth, earnest devout
search for it, and encouragement of it, loyal
furtherance and obedience to it, is the outcome
and essence of all true religions, and
was and ever will be.= _Carlyle._
=Reverence the highest, have patience with
the lowest. Let this day's performance of
the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the
stars too distant, pick up the pebble that
lies at thy feet and from it learn the all.=
_Margaret Fuller._
=Reverence= (_Ehrfurcht_), =which no child brings= 30
=into the world along with him, is the one
thing on which all depends for making a
man in every point a man.= _Goethe._
=Reverie is the Sunday of thought.= _Amiel._
=Reverie, which is thought in its nebulous state,
borders closely upon the land of sleep, by
which it is bordered as by a natural frontier.=
_Victor Hugo._
=Reviewers are usually people who would have
been poets, historians, biographers, if they
could; they have tried their talents at one
or the other, and have failed; therefore they
turn critics.= _Coleridge._
=Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a
most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt
thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an
unsuccessful author turns critic.= _Shelley._
=Revocate animos, mœstumque timorem / Mittite=--Resume 35
your courage, and cast off desponding
fear. _Virg._
=Revolutions are like the most noxious dung-heaps,
which bring into life the noblest vegetables.=
_Napoleon._
=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._
=Revolutions never go backward.= _Wendell
Phillips._
=Rex datur propter regnum, non regnum propter
regem. Potentia non est nisi ad bonum=--A
king is given for the sake of the kingdom, not
the kingdom for the sake of the king. His
power is only for the public good. _L._
=Rex est major singulis, minor universis=--The 40
king is greater than each singly, but less than all
unitedly. _Bracton._
=Rex est qui metuit nihil; / Rex est qui cupit
nihil=--He is a king who fears nothing; he is a
king who desires nothing. _Sen._
=Rex non potest fallere nec falli=--The king cannot
deceive or be deceived.
=Rex non potest peccare=--The king can do no
wrong.
=Rex nunquam moritur=--The king never dies. _L._
=Rex regnat, sed non gubernat=--The king reigns, 45
but does not govern. _Jan Zamoiski._
=Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed
and argument put in order.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.=
_Plato._
=Rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who
feels least will most excel in; it is the
quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums,
not in cures.= _Colton._
=Rhyme that had no inward necessity to be
rhymed; it ought to have told us plainly,
without any jingle, what it was aiming at.=
_Carlyle._
=Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.=
_Ham._, iii. 1.
=Rich men are indeed rather possessed by their
money than possessors.= _Burton._
=Rich men without wisdom and learning are
but sheep with golden fleeces.= _Solon._
=Rich, not gaudy.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Rich the treasure, / Sweet the pleasure; /= 5
=Sweet is pleasure after pain.= _Dryden._
=Rich with the spoils of time.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Richard's himself again!= _Cibber._
=Richer than rubies, / Dearer than gold, /
Woman, true woman, / Glad we behold!=
_Old love-song._
=Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but
those collected by hand and little by little
will multiply.= _Goethe._
=Riches and favour go before wisdom and art.= 10
_Dan. Pr._
=Riches are as a stronghold in the imagination
of the rich man.= _Solomon._
=Riches are for spending, and spending for
honour and good actions.= _Bacon._
=Riches are got wi' pain, kept wi' care, and
tint= (lost) =wi' grief.= _Sc. Pr._
=Riches are like bad servants, whose shoes are
made of running leather, and will never tarry
long with one master.= _Brooks._
=Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities= 15
=to which mankind are liable.= _Cervantes._
=Riches are often abused, never refused.= _Dan.
Pr._
=Riches breed care, poverty is safe.= _Dan. Pr._
=Riches bring cares.= _Pr._
=Riches come better after poverty than poverty
after riches.= _Chinese Pr._
=Riches do not consist in having more gold and= 20
=silver, but in having more in proportion than
our neighbours.= _Locke._
=Riches do not exhilarate us so much by their
possession as they torment us with their
loss.= _Gregory._
=Riches fineless is as poor as winter / To him
that ever fears he shall be poor.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Riches for the most part are hurtful to them
that possess them.= _Plutarch._
=Riches have made mair men covetous than
covetousness has made men rich.= _Sc. Pr._
=Riches have wings.= _Pr._ 25
=Riches profit not in the day of wrath.= _Bible._
=Riches take peace from the soul, but rarely, if
ever, confer it.= _Petrarch._
=Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope
withers away, but love stays with us. Love
is God.= _Lew Wallace._
=Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet
they cannot cause them; he is much more
noble who deserves a benefit than he who
bestows one.= _Feltham._
=Richt wrangs nae man.= _Sc. Pr._ 30
=Richter sollen zwei gleiche Ohren haben=--Judges
should have two ears, both alike. _Ger.
Pr._
=Ride si sapis=--Laugh, if you are wise. _Mart._
=Ridentem dicere verum / Quid vetat?=--Why
may a man not speak the truth in a jocular vein?
_Hor._
=Ridere in stomacho=--To laugh inwardly, _i.e._, in
one's sleeve.
=Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.= 35
_Addison._
=Ridet argento domus=--The house is smiling with
silver. _Hor._
=Ridetur chorda qui semper oberrat eadem=--He
is laughed at who is for ever harping away on
the same string. _Hor._
=Ridicule has ever been the most powerful
enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only
antagonist that can be opposed to it with
success.= _Goldsmith._
=Ridicule intrinsically is a small faculty; we
may say, the smallest of all faculties that
other men are at the pains to repay with
any esteem. It is directly opposed to
thought, to knowledge, properly so called;
its nourishment and essence is denial, which
hovers on the surface, while knowledge
dwells far below.= _Carlyle._
=Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled at a= 40
=strong mind; but common men are cowards,
and dread an empty laugh.= _Tupper._
=Ridicule, while it often checks what is absurd,
fully as often smothers that which is noble.=
_Scott._
=Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance and
adopted by folly.= _Smollett._
=Ridiculum acri / Fortius ac melius magnas
plerumque secat res=--Ridicule often settles
matters of importance better and more effectually
than severity. _Hor._
=Ridiculus æque nullus est, quam quando esurit=--No
man is so facetious as when he is hungry.
_Plaut._
=Rien de plus éloquent que l'argent comptant=--Nothing 45
is more eloquent than ready money.
_Fr. Pr._
=Rien de plus hautain qu'un homme médiocre
devenu puissant=--Nothing is more haughty
than a common-place man raised to power. _Fr.
Pr._
=Rien n'a qui assez n'a=--Who has nothing has
not enough. _Fr. Pr._
=Rien n'arrive pour rien=--Nothing happens for
nothing. _Fr. Pr._
=Rien n'empêche tant d'être naturel que l'envie
de la paraître=--Nothing so much prevents one
from being natural as the desire to appear so.
_La Roche._
=Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est= 50
=aimable=--Nothing is beautiful but the true;
the true alone is lovely. _Boileau._
=Rien n'est plus estimable que la civilité; mais
rien de plus ridicule, et de plus à charge,
que la cérémonie=--Nothing is more estimable
then politeness, and nothing more ridiculous or
tiresome than ceremony. _Fr._
=Rien n'est plus rare que la véritable bonté;
ceux même qui croient en avoir n'ont d'ordinaire
que de la complaisance ou de la faiblesse=--Nothing
is rarer than real goodness;
those even who think they possess it are generally
only good-natured and weak. _La Roche._
=Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un indiscret ami; /
Mieux vaudroit un sage ennemi=--Nothing
more dangerous than an imprudent friend; a
prudent enemy would be better.
=Rien ne déconcerte plus efficacement les desseins
des pervers, que la tranquillité des
grands cœurs=--Nothing so effectively baffles
the schemes of evil men so much as the calm
composure of great souls. _Mirabeau._
=Rien ne m'est sûr que la chose incertaine=--There
is nothing certain but the uncertain. _Fr._
=Rien ne manque à sa gloire; il manquait à la
nôtre=--Nothing is wanting to his glory; he was
wanting to ours. _Inscription on the bust of
Molière, which was placed in the Academy in_
1773.
=Rien ne pèse tant qu'un secret=--Nothing
presses so heavy on us as a secret. _La Fontaine._
=Rien ne peut arrêter sa vigilante audace. /
L'été n'a point de feux, l'hiver n'a point de
glace=--Nothing can check his watchful daring.
For him the summer has no heat, the winter no
ice. _Boileau of Louis XIV._
=Rien ne ressemble plus à un honnête homme= 5
=qu'un fripon=--Nothing resembles an honest man
more than a rogue. _Fr. Pr._
=Rien ne réussit mieux que le succès=--Nothing
succeeds like success.
=Rien ne s'anéantit; non, rien, et la matière, /
Comme un fleuve éternel, roule toujours
entière=--Nothing is annihilated, no, nothing;
matter, like an ever-flowing stream, still rolls on
undiminished. _Boucher._
=Rien ne s'arrête pour nous=--Nothing anchors
itself fast for us. _Pascal._
=Rien ne sert de courir: il faut partir à point=--It's
no use running; only setting out betimes.
_La Fontaine._
=Rien ne vaut poulain s'il ne rompt son lien=--A 10
colt is nothing worth if it does not break its
halter. _Fr. Pr._
=Rien que s'entendre=--Nothing but good understanding.
_Said of friendship._
=Right actions for the future are the best apologies
for wrong ones in the past.= _T. Edwards._
=Right ethics are central, and go from the soul
outward. Gift is contrary to the law of the
universe.= _Emerson._
=Right is more beautiful than private affection,
and is compatible with universal wisdom.=
_Emerson._
=Right is right, since God is God.= _Faber._ 15
=Right wrongs no man.= _Pr._
=Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a
reproach to any people.= _Bible._
=Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in
the way.= _Bible._
=Rightly, poetry is organic. We cannot know
things by words and writing, but only by
taking a central position in the universe and
living in its forms.= _Emerson._
=Rightly to be great / Is not to stir without= 20
=great argument, / But greatly to find quarrel
in a straw / When honour's at the stake.=
_Ham._, iv. 4.
=Rigour pushed too far is sure to miss its aim,
however good; as the bow snaps that is bent
too stiffly.= _Schiller._
=Rinasce più gloriosa=--It rises more glorious than
ever. _M._
=Riñen las comadres y dicense las verdades=--Gossips
quarrel and tell the truth. _Sp. Pr._
=Ring out the old, ring in the new, / Ring,
happy bells, across the snow!= _Tennyson._
=Ripening love is the stillest; the shady flowers= 25
=in this spring, as in the other, shun sunlight.=
_Jean Paul._
=Rira bien qui rira le dernier=--He laughs well
who laughs the last. _Fr. Pr._
=Rire à gorge déployée=--To laugh immoderately.
_Fr._
=Rire dans sa barbe=--To laugh in one's sleeve.
=Rise, Christopher! thou hast found thy King,
and turn / Back to the earth, for I have need
of thee. / Thou hast sustained the whole
world, bearing me, / The Lord of earth and
heaven.= _Lewis Morris._
=Rise up before the hoary head, and honour= 30
=the face of the old man.= _Bible._
=Rising genius always shoots forth its rays
from among clouds and vapours, but these
will gradually roll away and disappear as
it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.=
_Washington Irving._
=Rising to great place is by a winding stair.=
_Bacon._
=Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est=--Nothing is
more silly than silly laughter. _Cat._
=Risum teneatis, amici?=--Can you refrain from
laughter, my friends? _Hor._
=Risus abundat in ore stultorum=--Laughter is 35
common in the mouth of fools.
=Rivalem patienter habe=--Bear patiently with
a rival. _Ovid._
=Rivers are roads which travel, and which carry
us whither we wish to go.= _Pascal._
=Rivers cannot fill the sea, that, drinking,
thirsteth still.= _Christina Rossetti._
=Rivers flow with sweet waters; but, having
joined the ocean, they become undrinkable.=
_Hitopadesa._
=Rivers need a spring.= _Pr._ 40
=Roads are many; authentic finger-posts are
few.= _Carlyle._
=Roast meat at three fires; as soon as you've
basted one, another's burnin'.= _George Eliot._
=Rob not the poor, because he is poor.= _Bible._
=Robbing Peter to pay Paul.= _Pr._
=Robespierre à pied et à cheval=--Robespierre 45
on foot and on horseback, _i.e._, Robespierre and
Napoleon. _Mme. de Staël._
=Rock of ages, cleft for me, / Let me hide myself
in thee.= _Toplady._
=Rock'd in the cradle of the deep, / I lay me
down in peace to sleep.= _Emma Willard._
=Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest
wreck'd.= _Milton._
=Rogner les ailes à quelqu'un=--To clip one's
wings. _Fr._
=Rogues are always found out in some way.= 50
=Whoever is a wolf will act as a wolf; that
is the most certain of all things.= _La Fontaine._
=Roi fainéant=--A do-nothing king. _Fr._
=Roland for an Oliver=, _i.e._, one audacity capped
by a greater.
=Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! /
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; /
Man marks the earth with ruin,--his control
/ Stops with the shore.= _Byron._
=Roma locuta est; causa finita est=--Rome has
spoken; the case is at an end.
=Romæ rus optas, absentem rusticus urbem /= 55
=Tollis ad astra levis=--At Rome you pine unsettled
for the country, in the country you laud
the distant city to the skies. _Hor._
=Romæ Tibur amem, ventosus, Tibure Romam=--Fickle
as the wind, I love Tibur when at Rome,
and Rome when at Tibur. _Hor._
=Romance and novel paint beauty in colours
more charming than Nature, and describe
a happiness that man never tastes. How
delusive, how destructive are those pictures
of consummate bliss!= _Goldsmith._
=Romance has been elegantly defined as the
offspring of fiction and love.= _I. Disraeli._
=Romance is the poetry of literature.= _Mme.
Necker._
=Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood.
Homer's horses clear the world at
a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon
to its prospect.... The palace that grew
up in a night merely awakens a wish to live
in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are
the common-places of five.= _Willmott._
=Romance, like a ghost, eludes touching; it is= 5
=always where you are not, not where you are.
The interview or conversation was prose at
the time, but is poetry in memory.= _G. W.
Curtis._
=Romam cuncta undique atrocia aut pudenda
confluunt celebranturque=--All things atrocious
and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
_Tac._
=Rome= (room) =indeed, and room enough, / When
there is in it but one only man.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Rome n'est plus dans Rome; elle est toute où
je suis=--Rome is no longer in Rome; it is all
where I am. _Corn._
=Rome was not built in one day.= _Heywood._
=Root away / The noisome weeds, which without= 10
=profit suck / The soil's fertility from
wholesome flowers.= _Rich. II._, iii. 4.
=Rore vixit more cicadæ=--He lived upon dew
like a grasshopper. _Pr._
=Roses fall, but the thorns remain.= _Dut. Pr._
=Roses fair on thorns do grow: / And they tell
me even so / Sorrows into virtues grow.=
_Dr. W. Smith._
=Roses grow among thorns.= _Pr._
=Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; /= 15
=Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun.=
_Shakespeare._
=Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken
for pebbles.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Round numbers are always false.= _Johnson._
=Round the world, but never in it.= _Pr. of
sailors._
=Rouge et noir=--A game of cards (_lit._ red and
black). _See Nuttall._
=Ruat cœlum, fiat voluntas tua=--Thy will be 20
done though the heavens should fall.
=Rude am I in my speech, / And little blessed
with the soft phrase of peace.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=Rudis indigestaque moles=--A rude and unarranged
mass. _Ovid._
=Ruh kommt aus Unruh, und wieder Unruh aus
Ruh=--Rest comes from unrest, and unrest again
from rest. _Ger. Pr._
=Ruhe ist die erste Bürgerpflicht=--Peace is the
first duty of a citizen. _Count Schulenburg-Kehnert
after the battle of Jena._
=Rühre die Laute nicht, wenn ringums Trommeln= 25
=erschallen; / Führen Narren das Wort,
schweiget der Weisere still=--Touch not the
lute when drums are sounding around; when
fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
_Herder._
=Ruin is most fatal when it begins from the
bottom.= _Goldsmith._
=Ruins are mile-stones on the road of time.=
_Chamfort._
=Ruins are the broken eggshell of a civilisation
which time has hatched and devoured.= _Julia
W. Howe._
=Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves; /
Britons never shall be slaves.= _Thomson._
=Rule youth weel and age will rule itsel'.= _Sc. Pr._ 30
=Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience
is the umpire.= _Mme. Dudevant._
=Rumour is a pipe / Blown by surmises, jealousies,
conjectures; / And of so easy and so
plain a stop / That the blunt monster with
uncounted heads, / The still-discordant
wavering multitude, / Can play upon it.=
2 _Hen. IV._, Induc.
=Run here or there, thou wilt find no rest, but
in humble subjection to the government of a
superior.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Rus in urbe=--Country in town. _Mart._
=Ruse contre ruse=--Diamond cut diamond. _Fr._ 35
=Ruse de guerre=--A stratagem. _Fr._
=Rust consumes iron, and envy consumes itself.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Rust wastes more than use.= _Fr. Pr._
=Rustica veritas=--Rustic veracity.
=Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille /= 40
=Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum=--The
peasant waits until the river shall cease to
flow; but still it glides on, and will glide on for
all time to come. _Hor._