The road which runs without a bend / Is that 5 which hath a proper end. Goethe.
The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief. Othello, i. 3.
The romantic is the instinctive delight in, and admiration for, sublimity, beauty, and virtue, unusually manifested. Ruskin.
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered has been the effort of men to earn, rather than to receive, their salvation; and the reason that preaching is so commonly ineffectual is, that it calls on men oftener to work for God than to behold God working for them. Ruskin.
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. Mme. Swetchine.
The rough material of fine writing is certainly 10 the gift of genius; but I as firmly believe that the workmanship is the united effort of pains, attention, and repeated trial. Burns.
The rough seas that spare not any man. Pericles, ii. 1.
The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect. Goethe.
The rule of the footway is clear as the light, / And none can its reason withstand; / On each side of the way you must keep to the right, / And leave those you meet the left hand. Saying.
The ruling passion, be it what it will, / The ruling passion, conquers reason still. Pope.