REMORSE-REPENTANCE.

1. Forgive me, Valentine: if hearty sorrow Be a sufficient ransom for offence,

I tender it here; I do as truly suffer

As e'er I did offend.

SHAKSPEARE.

2. Who by repentance is not satisfied,

Is nor of heaven, nor earth.

SHAKSPEARE.

3. Sorrow for past ills doth restore frail man

To his first innocence.

NABB.

4. So carnal seamen in a storm,

Turn pious converts and reform.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

5. Repented all his sins, and made a last Irrevocable vow of reformation.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

6. So do the dark in soul expire,

Or live like scorpions girt by fire;

So writhes the mind remorse hath riven,
Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven

Darkness above, despair beneath,
Around it flame, within it death!

7. Revenge is lost in agony,

And wild remorse to rage succeeds.

8. High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, remorse:

BYRON.

BYRON.

Fear for their scourge mean villains have;
Thou art the torturer of the brave.

SCOTT's Marmion.

9. Remorse drops anguish from her burning eyes, Feels hell's eternal worm, and, shuddering, dies.

CHARLES SPRAGUE.

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REPENTANCE-REPORT - RUMOUR.

10. Pangs more corrosive and severe,

More fierce, more poignant and intense,
Than ever hostile sword or spear

Wak'd in the breast of innocence.

MRS. HOLFORD's Margaret of Anjou.

REPENTANCE.-(See REMORSE.)

REPORT - RUMOUR.

1. Then straight thro' all the world 'gan fame to fly; A monster swifter none is under sun;

2.

Increasing, as in waters we descry

The circles small, of nothing that begun,

Till of the drops, which from the skies do fall,
The circles spread and hide the waters all.

Rumour's a pipe

Mirror for Magistrates.

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.

SHAKSPEARE.

3. It must be so; - for Thomas Brown, Esquire,
Heard Blab's wife tell the son of Mr. Smith,
(Him, that was christen'd John, after his sire-
Men often to transmit their names desire,)—

That Higgons said, while he was walking with
That charming maiden lady aged forty,

'Yclept Miss Catchem, (Higgons was her beau,)
She told him (confidentially) that naughty
And prattling gossip, Mrs. Wilkins, thought she
Heard Polly's cousin's sister's aunt say so.

J. T. WATSON.

4. The flying rumours gather'd as they roll'd;
Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told,
And all who told it added something new,
And all who heard it, made enlargement too;
In every ear it spread, on every tongue it grew.

POPE'S Temple of Fame.

REPROOF.

1. Thou turn'st my eyes into my very soul,
And there I see such black and grainèd spots
As will not leave their tinct.

2. Forbear sharp speeches to her: she's a lady So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, And strokes, death to her.

3.

Pr'ythee, forgive me;

I did but chide in jest; the best loves use it
Sometimes; it sets an edge upon affection.

SHAKSPEARE.

SHAKSPEARE.

MIDDLETON.

4. Reprove not in their wrath incensed men ;
Good counsel comes clean out of season then:
But when their fury is appeas'd and past,
They will conceive their faults, and mend at last.

1.

REPUTATION.-(See CHARACTER.)

RANDOLPH.

RESOLUTION. (See DETERMINATION.)

RETIREMENT.-(See HERMIT.)

REWARD.

Thou prun'st a rotten tree,

That cannot so much as a blossom yield,
In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry.

SHAKSPEARE.

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REVENGE VENGEANCE.

2. Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools, the pageant of a day:
So perish all whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' wo.

3. The world's best comfort was, his doom was past-
Die when he might, he must be damn'd at last.

4. So fares the follower of the Muses' train;
He toils to starve, and only lives in death;
We slight him till our patronage is vain,

Then round his skeleton a garland wreathe.

POPE.

COWPER.

Rejected Addresses.

5. Do thou the good thy thoughts oft meditate,
And thou shalt feel the good man's peace within,
And after death his wreath of glory win.

CARLOS WILCOX.

REVENGE - VENGEANCE.

1. Oh, that the slave had forty thousand lives! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge!

SHAKSPEARE.

2. I am disgrac'd, impeach'd, and baffled here;
Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear;
The which no balm can cure but his heart's blood,
Which breath'd this poison.

3. The fairest action of our human life

4.

Is scorning to revenge an injury;
For who forgives without a further strife,

His adversary's heart to him doth tie:
And 't is a finer conquest, truly said,
To win the heart, than overthrow the head.

Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils.

SHAKSPEARE.

LADY E. CAREW.

MILTON'S Paradise Lost.

5.

It wounds, indeed,

To bear affronts too great to be forgiven,
And not have power to punish.

6. Patience! my soul disdains its stoic maxim, The coward's virtue, and the knave's disguise: O vengeance! take me all-I'm wholly thine!

7. These the sole accents from his tongue that fell, But volumes lurk'd below that fierce farewell.

8.

There are things

DRYDEN.

BYRON'S Island.

Which make revenge a virtue by reflection,
And not an impulse of mere anger; though
The law sleeps, justice wakes, and injur'd souls
Oft do a public right with private wrong.

BYRON'S Marino Faliero.

9. No! When the battle rages dire,
And the rous'd soul is all on fire,
Think'st thou a noble heart can stay,
Hate's rancorous impulse to obey?

MRS. HOLFORD'S Margaret of Anjou.
Revenge we find

10.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind.

GIFFORD'S Juvenal.

11.

Whom vengeance track'd so long,
Feeding its torch with the thought of wrong.

J. G. WHITTIER.

RIDICULE-SHAME.

1. For often vice, provok'd to shame,
Borrows the colour of a virtuous deed:
Thus libertines are chaste, and misers good,
A coward valiant, and a priest sincere.

SEWELL'S Sir Walter Raleigh.