Quotations Page 'R'

In rage deaf as the sea; hasty as fire.

- Shakespeare -

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Your railroad, when you come to understand it, so only a device for making the world smaller.

- Ruskin, Modern Painters -

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He sendeth rein on the just and the unjust.

- New Testament, Mathew -

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The sunshine greets me with a smile. The rain, his sad sister, talks to my heart.

- Tagore, Stray Birds -

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The kind refresher of the summer heart.

- Thomson -

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I do set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a token of a convenant between me and the earth.

- Old Testament, Genesis -

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That smiling daughter of the storm.

- Colton -

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Through tattered clothe, small vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all.

- Shakespeare, Lear -

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Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

- Runffine -

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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

- Pope, Criticism -

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Rashness and haste make all things inseccure.

- Benham -

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It is well to read everything of something and something of everything.

- Broughams -

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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.

- Steele -

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The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

- P.G.Hamerton -

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The heart has reasons of which reson has no knowledge.

- Pascal -

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Good reason must, of force, give place to better.

- Shakespeare -

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Rebellion against tyranny is obedience to God.

- Franklin -

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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

- Anon -

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Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

- Cowper -

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