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Quacks.-Pettifoggers in law and empirics in medicine have held from time immemorial the fee simple of a vast estate, subject to no alienation, diminution, revolution, nor tax the folly and ignorance of mankind. - Colton.

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. Thoreau.

Qualities. Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. Goethe.

Quarrels.- Coarse kindness is, at least, better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness. George Eliot.

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed. - Mme. Necker.

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Questions. — There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can, in this state, receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? And, since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?-Johnson.

Quotation. — In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them. Selden.

If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.- Jeremy Taylor.

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. - Burke.

It is the beauty and independent worth of the citations, far more than their appropriateness, which have made Johnson's Dictionary popular even as a reading-book. - Coleridge.

Ruin half an author's graces by plucking bon-mots from their places. — Hannah More.

I take memorandums of the schools. - Swift.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Mazzini.

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones. Trublet.

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more. Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it. Coleridge.

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A couplet of verse, a period of prose, may cling to the rock of ages as a shell that survives a deluge. Bulwer-Lytton.

Selected thoughts depend for their flavor upon the terseness of their expression, for thoughts are grains of sugar, or salt, that must be melted in a drop of water. J. Petit Senn.

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As people read nothing in these days that is more than forty-eight hours old, I am daily admonished that allusions, the most obvious, to anything in the rear of our own times need explanation. — De Quincey.

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Rain. - Clouds dissolved the thirsty ground supply.

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The kind refresher of the summer heats.

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Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. Waller.

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The spongy clouds are filled with gathering rain. - Dryden.

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Born of the shower, and colored by the sun. J. C. Prince.

God's glowing covenant.

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Rank. If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it. Madame Swetchine.

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I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better. - Wycherley.

Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man. Southerne.

Rashness.

Rashness and haste make all things insecure. Denham.

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We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by overrunning — Shakespeare.

Reading. - Read, and refine your appetite; learn to live upon instruction; feast your mind and mortify your flesh; read, and take your nourishment in at your eyes, shut up your mouth, and chew the cud of understanding. — Congreve.

Deep versed in books, but shallow in himself. – Milton.

The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life, which come to every one, for hours of delight. - Montesquieu.

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy, who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him. He changed his mind, and went to the oars. Macaulay.

Exceedingly well read and profited in strange concealments. Shakespeare.

The reader, who would follow a close reasoner to the summit of the absolute principle of any one important subject, has chosen a chamois-hunter for his guide. He cannot carry us on his shoulders; we must strain our sinews, as he has strained his; and make firm footing on the smooth rock for ourselves, by the blood of toil from our own feet. Coleridge.

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Reason. Reason lies between the spur and the bridle. George Herbert.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason. - Voltaire.

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If reasons were as plenty as blackberries I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. speare.

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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

Bolingbroke.

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred; that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering; that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity. - Joubert.

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. Shakespeare.

Reason's progressive; instinct is complete: swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

Young.

Faith evermore looks upward and descries objects remote; but reason can discover things only near, sees nothing that 's above her. Quarles.

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How can finite grasp infinity? - Dryden.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains ever the property of the few. Goethe.

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Reason is, so to speak, the police of the kingdom of art, seeking only to preserve order. In life itself a cold arithmetician who adds up our follies. Sometimes, alas! only the accountant in bankruptcy of a broken heart. Heinrich Heine.

Sure He that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and godlike reason to rust in us unused. Shake

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Reason may cure illusions but not suffering.— Alfred de Musset.

Reciprocity. There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life, that word is reciprocity. What you do not wish done to yourself, do not do to others. — Confucius.

Reconciliation. It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will. Owen Feltham.

Rectitude.-The great high-road of human welfare lies along the highway of steadfast well-doing, and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful. Samuel Smiles.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

Thoreau.

No man can do right unless he is good, wise, and strong. What wonder we fail?- Charles Buxton.

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