A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.-J. L. Motley. Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of pros- with a double edge. Repartee is the highest perity. - Rousseau. order of wit, as it bespeaks the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius at a moment when the passions are roused. - Colton. Priest, spare thy words! I add not to my sins that of presumption, in pretending now to offer up to heaven the forced repentance of some short moments for a life of crime. —Joanna Baillie. As it is never too soon to do good, so it is never too late to repent-Arthur Warwick. Repentance is accepted remorse.— Mme. Swetchine. Repentance is a goddess and the preserver of those who have erred. - Julian. Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. Dewey. He who seeks repentance for the past should woo the angel virtue in the future. Bulwer-Lytton. Better not do the deed than weep it done. Prior. Repentance is but another name for aspiration. Beecher. Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism. Thackeray. Repentance is a magistrate that exacts the strictest duty and humility. - Clarendon. Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them, Sherlock. Repentance, however difficult to be practised, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. - Dr. Johnson. Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid. Earl of Sterling. but they believe it without the condition of reMany believe the article of remission of sins, pentance or the fruits of holy life. Jeremy Taylor. The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone. Miss Braddon. True repentance also involves reform. — Hosea Ballou. Every one goes astray, and the least impru dent is he who repents the soonest. - Voltaire. We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during recovery men repent, not during sickness. — J. C. Hare. None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance. Hosea Ballou. Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentand lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other Montaigne. ance. REPOSE. 421 REPUTATION Power rests in tranquillity. - Cecil. REPUBLIC. A republic properly understood is a soverThe gravest events dawn with no more noise eignty of justice, in contradistinction to a than the morning star makes in rising. sovereignty of will. - Thomas Paine. REPROACH. -- Beecher. If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling. Haliburton. Reprove thy friend privately. - Solon. Too much reproach "o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side." — Bovée. Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise. — Balzac. Gibbon has said that republics end by their If merited, no courage can stand against its luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty. just indignation. - Colton. Horace Greeley. We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise, God is great! Though he slay me, yet I trust in him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth. Carlyle. The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill? - Dryden. RESIGNATION. If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it A man that fortune's buffets and rewards hast be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the ta'en with equal thanks. Shakspeare. crown. Quarles. God be praised that I am overtaken with misfortune and not with sin. Saadi. Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of nature, are calls to labor and exercise of diligence.- Dr. Johnson. O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee. - Fénelon. There is more courage needed oftentimes to We must learn to suffer what we cannot accept the onward flow of existence, bitter as evade. Montaigne. Richter. the waters of Marah, black and narrow as the channel of Jordan, than there is ever needed to bow down the neck to the sweep of the death-angel's sword. — Ouida. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. Bible. Act well your given part; the choice rests Obedience and resignation are our personal not with you. -- Epictetus. offerings upon the altar of duty. Hosea Ballou. Dare to look up to God and say: "Deal with me in the future as thou wilt. I am of the same mind as thou art; I am thine. I refuse nothing that pleases thee. Lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress thou choosest."- - Epictetus. I have been a great deal happier since I have given up thinking about what is easy and pleasant, and being discontented because I could not have my own will. Our life is determined for us; and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us to do.- George Eliot. |