Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.—Dr. Vinet.
Responsibility.—Responsibility educates.—Wendell Phillips.
Restlessness.—The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity—a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.—Goethe.
Always driven towards new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age cast anchor for even a day?—Lamartine.
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.
"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.