Remembrance To remember and to recollect are different and Recollection things. A man has not the power to recollect what is not in his mind; but when a thing is in his mind he may remember it.-Life. June 3, 1781. Let us be quick to repent of injuries, while Repentance repentance may not be a barren anguish.— Rambler, No. 54. Repentance is the relinquishment of any Repentance practice, from the conviction that it has offended God.-Rambler, No. 110. Reproof Reputation Glamour of Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.-Idler, No. 25. The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out; but it often dies in the socket. Such is the power of reputation justly Reputation acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination.-Life of Milton. Reserve of Two men of any other nation who are Englishmen shown into a room together, at a house where they are both visitors, will immediately find some conversation. But two Englishmen will probably go each to a different window, and remain in obstinate silence. We as yet do not enough understand the common rights of humanity.-Life. March 30. Boswell's Collectanea, 1783. Resolution Resolve, and keep your resolution; choose, and pursue your choice. If you spend this day in study, you will find yourself still more able to study to-morrow; not that you are to expect that you shall at once obtain a complete victory. Depravity is not very easily overcome. Resolution will sometimes relax, and diligence will sometimes be interrupted; but let no accidental surprise or deviation, whether short or long, dispose you to despondency.-Life. Letter to Boswell. December 8, 1763. Insufficiency of Elegance is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero would wish to be loved as well as to be reverenced.Lives of the Poets. Pope. Responsibility The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.-Rambler, No. 71. Rest The highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception, is that of rest after fatigue.-Rambler, No. 150. Retirement The love of retirement has, in all ages, adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. -Rambler, No. 7. Epistolary No man was ever in doubt about the moral qualities of a letter.-Rambler, No. 152. Revelations Revenge It is too common for those who have unjustly suffered pain to inflict it likewise in their turn with the same injustice, and to imagine that they have a right to treat others as they have themselves been treated.-Lives of the Poets. Savage. Revenge Unnecessarily to obtrude unpleasing ideas is a species of revenge.-Rambler. To be rich is to have more than is desired, To be Rich and more than is wanted; to have something that may be spent without reluctance, and scattered without care, with which the sudden demands may be gratified, the casual freaks of fancy indulged, or the unexpected opportunities of benevolence improved.-Idler, No. 73. Riches are of no value in themselves; their Riches use is discovered only in that which they procure.-Rambler, No. 201. Riches Of riches, as of everything else, the hope is more than the enjoyment. No sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions, than we find them insufficient to fill up the vacuities of life.-Idler, No. 73. Riches Riches, authority, and praise, lose all their influence when they are considered as riches which to-morrow shall be bestowed upon another authority which shall this night expire for ever, and praise which, however merited, or however sincere, shall after a few moments be heard no more.-Rambler, No. 54. Riches Very seldom make their owner richer.Idler, No. 73. Riches Riches and joyments. Productiveness of Riches Right and Riches excludes but one evil-poverty.Life. September 19, 1777. Every man is rich or poor, according to the proportion between his desires and en Riches easily produce riches. - Adventurer, No. 102. Right and wrong are immutable.-Adventurer, No. 95. It is no slight advancement to obtain for Early Rising so many hours more the consciousness of being.-Life. Letter to Langton, March 9, 1766. The Rod The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped and gets his task, and there's an end on 't: whereas, by exciting emulations and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.-Life. 1716. Rough and Among the necessaries of human life, a rasp is reckoned one as well as a razor. Piozzi's Anecdotes, p. 283. Rules for Restoration 1. Turn all care out of your head as soon of Health as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality; your health is worth more than it can cost. 3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue. 4. Take now and then a day's rest. 5. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy.— Life. Vicarious It is better that some should be unhappy, Sacrifice than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.-Life. April 17, 1776. the English Generosity of He throws away his money, without Sailor thought, and without merit. I do not call a tree generous which sheds its fruit at every breeze.— Journal. November 11. Boswell's Collectanea. Sailors No man will be a sailor who has contriv ance enough to get himself into a gaol; for being in a ship is being in a gaol, with the chance of being drowned.-Journal. August 31. Advantage of All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism Satire may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment: he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.—Lives of the Poets. Pope, IV., p. 130. Satisfaction not To be merely satisfied is not enough. It Sufficient is in refinement and elegance that the civilised man differs from the savage. A great part of our industry and all our ingenuity is exercised in procuring |