Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.—Rousseau.
Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.—Shakespeare.
Truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.—Gray.
Repartee.—The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.—Molière.
Repentance.—-Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.—Sterling.
He repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.—Quarles.
Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.—Moore.
Is it not in accordance with divine order that every mortal is thrown into that situation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to his own view, that he may know them, acknowledge them, struggle against them, and put them away?—Anna Cora Ritchie.
Repentance is second innocence.—De Bonald.
Repose.—Repose is agreeable to the human mind; and decision is repose. A man has made up his opinions; he does not choose to be disturbed; and he is much more thankful to the man who confirms him in his errors, and leaves him alone, than he is to the man who refutes him, or who instructs him at the expense of his tranquillity.—Sydney Smith.