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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.

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"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.

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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.

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Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses. Ledru Rollin.

Revolution is the larva of civilization. Victor Hugo.

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary! The violence of these outrages will always be proportioned to the ferocity and ignorance of the people and the ferocity and ignorance of the people will be proportioned to the oppression and degradation under which they have been accustomed to live. Macaulay.

Let them call it mischief; when it's past and prospered, 't will be virtue. Ben Jonson.

Rhetoric. In composition, it is the art of putting ideas together in graceful and accurate prose; in speaking, it is the art of delivering ideas with propriety, elegance, and force; or, in other words, it is the science of oratory. — Locke.

Rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with a free expression, when they understand not reason. Selden.

The florid, elevated, and figurative way is for the passions; for love and hatred, fear and anger, are begotten in the soul by showing their objects out of their true proportion, either greater than the life, or less; but instruction is to be given by showing them what they naturally are. A man is to cheated into passion, but reasoned into truth. - Dryden.

All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. Locke.

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Rhetoric is very good, or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. Selden.

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The shortest road to riches lies

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through contempt of riches. ·

Seneca.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich. Johnson.

Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream. Bonnell.

If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love. Confucius.

I have a rich neighbor that is always so busy that he has no leisure to laugh; the whole business of his life is to get money, more money, that he may still get more. He is still drudging, saying what Solomon says, "The diligent hand maketh rich." And it is true, indeed; but he considers not that it is not in the power of riches to make a man happy; for it was wisely said by a man of great observation that "there be as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them."- Izaak Walton.

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. Owen Feltham.

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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. Joubert.

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Ridicule.Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off, not a stone goes through. Beecher.

Rogues.-Rogues are always found out in some Whoever is a wolf will act as a wolf; that is the most certain of all things. La Fontaine.

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Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how. Hazlitt.

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Ruin. To be ruined your own way is some comfort. When so many people would ruin us, it is a triumph over the villany of the world to be ruined after one's own pattern. - Douglas Jerrold.

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Sacrifice. You cannot win without sacrifice. - Charles Buxton.

What you most repent of is a lasting sacrifice made under an impulse of good-nature. The goodnature goes, the sacrifice sticks. Charles Buxton. Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness. ·Countess de Gasparin.

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Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys. — Thoreau.

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Other rules vary; this is the only one you will find without exception: That in this world the salary or reward is always in the inverse ratio of the duties performed. — Sydney Smith.

Sarcasm.

A true sarcasm is like a swordstick it appears, at first sight, to be much more innocent than it really is, till, all of a sudden, there leaps something out of it-sharp and deadly and incisive which makes you tremble and recoil. Sydney Smith.

Satire. To lash the vices of a guilty age. Churchill.

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Thou shining supplement of public laws!-Young. By satire kept in awe, shrink from ridicule, though not from law. Byron.

When dunces are satiric I take it for a panegyric.

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Scandal has something so piquant, it is a sort of cayenne to the mind. Byron.

School. More is learned in a public than in a private school from emulation: there is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one centre. - - Johnson.

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Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, a person less imposing, in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. — Brougham. The whining school-boy, with his satchel, and shining morning face, creeping like a snail, unwillingly to school. Shakespeare.

Science. - They may say what they like; everything is organized matter. The tree is the first link of the chain, man is the last. Men are young, the earth is old. Vegetable and animal chemistry are still in their infancy. Electricity, galvanism, what discoveries in a few years!Napoleon.

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Human science is uncertain guess. Prior.

Twin-sister of natural and revealed religion, and of heavenly birth, science will never belie her celestial origin, nor cease to sympathize with all that emanates from the same pure home. Human ignorance and prejudice may for a time seem to have divorced what God has joined together; but human ignorance and prejudice shall at length pass away, and then science and religion shall be seen blending their parti-colored rays into one beautiful bow of light, linking heaven to earth and earth to heaven. - Prof. Hitchcock.

Science is a first rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has n't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. — Holmes.

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