Man should do nothing that he should repent;
But if he have, and say that he is sorry,
It is a worse fault, if he be not truly.

Beaumont and Fletcher. REPENTANCE-issuing a Forgiveness. If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. St. Luke.

REPENTANCE-Clothing the Past. Repentance clothes in grass and flowers, The grave in which the past is laid. Sterling. REPENTANCE-For the Past. He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. Bulwer Lytton. REPENTANCE-Purifying Power of. 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.

REPINERS-A Lesson for.

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches; when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches, hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they clog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly. We see but the outside of the rich man's happiness: few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time spinning her own bowels, and consuming herself. And this many rich men do loading themselves with corroding cares to keep what they have already got. Let us, therefore, be thankful for healthened competence, and above all, for a quiet conscience. Izaak Walton.

REPORTS-False.

Open your ears; for which you will stop
The vent of hearing, when loud rumour
speaks!

I, from the orient to the drooping west,
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold
The acts commenced on this ball of earth:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce;
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
I speak of peace, while covert enmity,
Under the smile of safety, wounds the world:
And who but Rumour, who but only I,
Make fearful musters, and prepared defence;
Whilst the big year, swoln with some other.
grief,

Is thought with child by the stern tyrant, war,
And no such matter? 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. But what need I thus
My well-known body to anatomize
Among my household? From Rumour's tongues
They bring smooth comforts false, worse than
true wrongs.
Shakspeare.

REPROOF.

'Tis not all sweetmeats that we set before them;

REPUTATION.

so much to please ourselves as for his own advantage. The reproaches, therefore, of a

Reprove not in their wrath incensed men ;
Good counsel comes clean out of season then:
But when his fury is appeased and past,
He will conceive his fault, and mend at last.
When he is cool, and calm, then utter it:
No man gives physic in the midst o' th' fit.
Randolph.

REPROOF-Strength of.

I will not let thee sleep, nor eat, nor drink; But I will ring thee such a piece of chiding Thou shalt confess the troubled sea more calm; That thunder with less violence cleaves the air.

The ravens, screech-owls, and the mandrake voice,

Shall be thy constant music.

REPROOF-Utility of.

Ibid.

The most difficult province in friendship is the letting a man see his faults and errors; which should, if possible, be so contrived, that he may perceive our advice is given him, not

too frequent.

REPUTATION-Importance of.

O reputation! dearer far than life,

Budgell.

Dost thou know what reputation is?
Upon a time, Reputation, Love, and Death,
Would travel o'er the world; and 'twas concluded
That they should part, and take three several
ways.

Death told 'em they should find him in great battles;

Or cities visited with plagues; Love gives them counsel

To inquire for him 'mongst unambitious shepherds,

Where dowries were not talk'd of; and sometimes

'Mongst quiet kindred, that had nothing left 'em
By their dead parents. But, says Reputation,
Do not forsake me; for it is my nature,
If once I part from any man I meet,
I am never found again!

REPUTATION-a Jewel.

Webster.

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REPUTATION-a Treasure.
The purest treasure mortal times afford,
Is spotless reputation; that away.
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.
Shakspeare.

REPUTATIONS-Conventional.

Literary life is full of curious phenomena. I don't know that there is anything more noticeable than what we may call conventional I reputations. There is a tacit understanding in every community of men of letters that they will not disturb the popular fallacy respecting this or that electro-gilded celebrity. There are various reasons for this forbearance: one is old; one is rich; one is good-natured; one is such a favourite with the pit, that it would not be safe to hiss him from the manager's box. The venerable augurs of the literary or scientific temple may smile faintly when one of the tribe is mentioned; but the farce is in general kept up as well as the Chinese comic scene of entreating and imploring a man to stay with you, with the implied compact between you that he shall by no means think of doing it. A poor wretch he must be who would wantonly sit down on one of these bandbox reputations. A Prince Rupert's drop, which is a tear of unannealed glass, lasts indefinitely, if you keep it from meddling hands; but break its tail off, and it explodes, and resolves itself into powder. These celebrities I speak of are the Prince Rupert's drops of the learned and polite world. See how the papers treat them. What an array of pleasant kaleidoscopic phrases, that can be arranged in ever so many charming patterns, is at their service. How kind the "Critical Notices"where small authorship comes to pick up chips of praise, fragrant, sugary, and sappy-always are to them. Well, life would be nothing without paper credit and other fictions; so let them pass current.

RESENTMENT-Depth of.

Holmes.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treasou.

Shakspeare.

'Tis thy Father's work of grace,Wait thou yet before His face; He thy sure deliverance will

Keep thou still!

RESIGNATION.

Shall weep no more. hope,

RESOLUTION.

And yield thyself to Heaven.

RESIGNATION-Light of.

True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes and the contradictions of life conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life. Humboldt.

RESIGNATION-Need for.
Comfort, dear mother; God is much displeased,
That with unthankfulness you take His doing;
In common worldly things, 'tis call'd-un-
grateful,

With dull unwillingness to repay a debt,
Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent;
Much more to be thus opposite with Heaven,
For it requires the royal debt it lent you.
Shakspeare.

RESIGNATION-Recommended.

Intrust thy fortune to the powers above:
Leave them to manage for thee, and to grant
What their unerring wisdom sees thee want.
In goodness as in greatness they excel:
Ah! that we loved ourselves but half so well!

Dryden.

Still raise for good the supplicated voice,
But leave to Heaven the measure and the
choice.
Johnson.

RESIGNATION-under Severe Trial.
I remember I saw an old officer, having his
son with him (a fine man, about twenty years
of age), going into the tent to dine. Whilst
they were at dinner, a shot from the bastion
of St. Antonio took off the head of the son.

The father immediately rose up, first looking down upon his headless child, and then lifting up his eyes to heaven, whilst the tears ran down his cheeks, only said, "Thy will be done!" It was a sad spectacle, and truly it affects me even now whilst I am writing.

Captain Carleton. RESIGNATION-Wisdom of. To be resign'd when ills betide, Patient when favours are denied,

And pleased with favours given; Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part, This is that incense of the heart,

mains

I stand

On a sure ground, unshaken as a rock
That bears the force of storms, yet still re-
Firm on the base, and rears its lofty head
Above the clouds.

Bushe.

How poor an instrument May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty. My resolution's placed, and I have nothing Of woman in me: Now from head to foot I am marble-constant: now the fleeting moon No planet is of mine. Shakspeare.

To a mind resolv'd and wise,
There is an impotence in misery,
Which makes me smile when all its shafts are
in me.
Young.

RESOLUTION-Determined Spirit of
Let come what will, I mean to bear it out,
And either live with glorious victory
Or die with fame, renown'd for chivalry;
He is not worthy the honeycomb

That shuns the hive because the bees have stings,

That likes me best that is not got with ease,
Which thousand dangers do accompany;
For nothing can dismay our regal mind,
Which aims at nothing but a golden crown,-
The only upshot of mine enterprises.
Were they enchainèd in grim Pluto's court,
And kept for treasure 'mong his hellish crew,
I'd either quell the triple Cerberus,
And all the army of his hateful hags,
Or roll the stone with wretched Sisyphus.

Shakspeare.

These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her I know not if they speak but truth of her, honour,

The proudest of them shall well hear of it.
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine
Nor age so eat up my invention,

Not fortune made such havoc of my means,
Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
But they shall find, awaked in such a kind,
Both strength of limb, and policy of mind,
Ability in means, and choice of friends,
To quit me of them thoroughly.

Experience teacheth us

And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us,
That we be bold in ev'ry enterprise :
Then since there is no way, but fight or die,
Be resolute, my lord, for victory. Shakspeare.

Why look you sad?

Be great in act as you have been in thought;
Let not the world see fear, and sad distrust,
Govern the motion of a kingly eye:
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes,
That borrow their behaviour from the great,
Grow great by your example, and put on
The dauntless spirit of resolution.
Away; and glister like the god of war,
When he intendeth to become the field:
Show boldness, and aspiring confidence.
What, shall they seek the lion in his den,
And fright him there? and make him tremble

there?

Oh, let it not be said !-Forage, and run
To meet displeasure farther from the doors;
And grapple with him, ere he come so nigh.

Ibid.

RESPECT-Procurement of.
Respect is better procured by exacting than
soliciting for it.
Greville.

RESPIRATION - Pure Air Necessary for.

It appears that when respiration is performed naturally, there are about 18 respirations in one minute, 1,080 in the hour, and 25,920 in the 24 hours. By each inspiration a pint of air is sent to the lungs-that is, 18 pints in a minute; in the hour more than two hogsheads, and in the 24 hours more than 57 hogsheads. When the body is in a state of health, there will be 72 pulsations of the heart in one minute. Every pulsation sends to the lungs two ounces of blood. Thus, 146 ounces, about an imperial gallon, are sent to the lungs, for the purpose of arterialization, or purification, every minute. In one hour, there are sent 450 pints, in 24 hours nearly 11,000 pints. The blood performs a complete circuit in the system in 110 seconds, and 540 circuits in 24 hours. There are three complete circulations of the blood in every eight minutes of time. The object of this beautiful arrangement is to ventilate the blood. A constant supply of fresh air is an absolute necessity of our nature. If we are deprived of it, we die at once; if the air is vitiated, we suffer languor, which very often results in disease.

Dr. S. Smith.

RESPONSIBILITY-to God.

All men, if they work not as in a Great Task-master's eye, will work wrong, work unhappily for themselves and you. Carlyle.

RESPONSIBILITY-Necessity of.

If the master takes no account of his servants, they will make small account of him, and care not what they spend, who are never brought to an audit. Fuller.

REST-the Object of All.

Rest unto our souls!-'tis all we want-the end of all our wishes and pursuits: give us a prospect of this, we take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth to have it in possession: we seek for it in titles, in riches, and pleasures-climb up after it by ambition,-come down again, and still we are gone out of the way; nor is it till stoop for it by avarice, -try all extremes: 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.

I have taken notice of several in my time, who, convinced by their consciences of unjustly detaining the goods of another, have endeavoured to make amends by their will, and after their decease; but they had as well do nothing as delude themselves both in taking so much time in so pressing an affair, and also in going about to repair an injury with so little demonstration of resentment something of their own; and by how much and concern. They owe over and above their payment is more strict and incommodious

to themselves, by so much is their restitution more perfect, just, and meritorious; for a Montaigne. penitency requires penance.

RESTLESSNESS-Folly of.

An anxious, restless temper, that runs to meet care on its way, that regrets lost opportunities too much, and that is over-painstaking in contrivances for happiness, is foolish, and should not be indulged. "On doit être heureux sans trop penser à l'être." If you