Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Ratio justifica—The reason which justifies.

Ratio quasi quædam lux lumenque vitæ—Reason is, as it were, the guide and light of life. Cic.

Ratio suasoria—The reason which persuades. 35

Rauch ist alles irdsche Wesen; / Wie des Dampfes Säule weht, / Schwinden alle Erdengrössen, / Nur die Götter bleiben stät—A vapour is all earthly existence; as a column of vapour it drifts along: vanish all earth's great ones; only the gods remain stable. Schiller.

Raum für alle hat die Erde—The earth is wide enough for all. Schiller.

Raum, ihr Herrn, dem Flügelschlag / Einer freien Seele—Room, gentlemen, for a free soul to clap its wings. G. Herwegh.

Raum ist in der kleinsten Hütte / Für ein glücklich liebend Paar—There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. Schiller.

Ravish'd with the whistling of a name. Pope. 40

Rays must converge to a point in order to glow intensely. Blair.

Re infecta—The business being unfinished. Cæs.