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

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice." It is so, 20 but without this wild austere stock there would be no justice in the world. Burke.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Bacon.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice. Johnson.

Revenge is an inheritance of weak souls. Körner.

Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its satiety despair. Schiller.

Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject 25 mind. Joubert.

Revenge of a wrong only makes another wrong. Spurgeon.

Revenons à nos moutons—Let us come back to our subject (lit. sheep). Pierre Blanchet.

Reverence for human worth, earnest devout search for it, and encouragement of it, loyal furtherance and obedience to it, is the outcome and essence of all true religions, and was and ever will be. Carlyle.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn the all. Margaret Fuller.