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

Rest not in an ovation, but in a triumph over thy passions. Sir Thomas Browne.

Rest not upon scattered counsels, for they will rather distract and mislead than settle and direct. Bacon.

Rest! rest! Shall I not have all eternity to rest in? Arnauld.

Rest thy unrest in England's lawful earth. Rich. III., iv. 4.

Restat iter cœlo: cœlo tentabimus ire; / Da veniam cœpto, Jupiter alte, meo—There remains a way through the heavens; through the heavens we will attempt to go. High Jupiter, pardon my bold design. Ovid, in the name of Dædalus when he escaped from the labyrinth on wings.

Restore to God his due in tithe and time: / 5 A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. George Herbert.

Restraint and discipline, examples of virtue and of justice, these are what form the education of the world. Burke.

Restraint and obstruction (la gêne) constitute the principle of movement. Renan.

Résumé—Recapitulation; summary. Fr.

Resurgam—I shall rise again. M.