REPENTANCE.

are too closely connected with it to be easily REPINERS-A Lesson for.
separated.
Addison.

REPROOF.

REPENTANCE-Virtue of.

Sorrow for past ills doth restore frail man
To his first innocence.

Nabb.

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.

True repentance is to cease from sin. Ambrose. REPROOF-Friendly.

Prithee, forgive me ;

I did but chide in jest; the best loves use it
Sometimes; it sets an edge upon affection.
When we invite our best friends to a feast,

REPROACH-Unjust.

I also could speak as ye do, if your soulwere in my soul's stead: I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head against you. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. Job.

REPROOF.

'Tis not all sweetmeats that we set before

them;

so much to please ourselves as for his own advantage. The reproaches, therefore, of a There's somewhat sharp and salt, both to whet friend should always be strictly just, and not appetite too frequent. Budgell.

And make them taste their wine well; so, methinks,

REPUTATION.

REPROOF-Utility of.

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

REPUTATION-Importance of.

reputation! dearer far than life,

Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet to smell;
Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash
hand,

Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil
Of the rude spiller, ever can collect
To its first purity and native sweetness.

RESIGNATION.

Shall weep no more. hope,

And yield thyself to Heaven.

Rest in that pleasing RESISTANCE-Spirit of.

Barbarossa.

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.

Resolved and agreed, that God's will ought to determine mine, and not mine pretend to RESOLUTION-Firmness of. determine the will of God.

Gossner.

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.

RESOLUTION.

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.

There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure. C. J. Fox.

I stand

On a sure ground, unshaken as a rock
That bears the force of storms, yet still re-

mains

Firm on the base, and rears its lofty head
Beshe.
Above the clouds.

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.

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,
Experience teacheth us
Whose fragrance smells to Heaven. Cotton. That resolution's a sole help in need:

Ibid.