The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.191.-Colton. The reformation was cradled in the printing press, and established by no other instrument.-Agnes Strickland.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.-L'Estrange.

Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections are not to be fixed but by those that are real.-De Moy.

Prevention is the best bridle.-Pelham.

'Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer of result.-Tryon Edwards.

Pride often defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.-Bolingbroke.

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.-Louis the Eleventh.

Principle is a passion for truth and right.-Hazlitt.

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.-Confucius.

Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty, chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.-Young.

By the streets of "by and by," one arrives at the house of "never."Cervantes.

Prodigality and dissipation at last bring a man to the want of the necessaries of life.-Volney.

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he that will not economize, will have to agonize.-Confucius.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise. To swear. is neither brave, polite, nor wise.-Cowper.

Profanity is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.— E. H. Chapin.

Progress is the activity of to-day, and the assurance of tomorrow.— Emerson.

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Progress is the law of life; man is not man as yet.-Robert Brown

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.-Howell. We promise according to our hopes, but perform according to our selfishness and our fears.-Rochefoucauld.

Promptness is the soul of business.-Chesterfield.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and promptness.

Colton.

Prosperity is the touch-stone of virtue; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes, than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.-Tacitus.

Prosperity too often has the same effect upon its possessor that a calm at sea has upon the Dutch mariner, who frequently, it is said, in these circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.Bishop Norne.

Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.-Anon.

Short sentences drawn from long experience.191-Cervantes.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of the world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the gospel. -Cecil.

By going a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend, on the corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning this street instead of the other, we may let slip some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution in the dark enigma, but the one word, "Providence."Longfellow.

Franklin left behind him more maxims than any of his countrymen, and prudence is the pivot on which they turn. -A. Rhodes.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.-Fielding.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.-Bancroft.

Public opinion, or public sentiment, is able to sustain, or to pull down any law of the commonwealth.-C. Simmons.

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Quackery has no such friend as credulity.-C. Simmons.

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to try ourselves whether there is any truth in them.Hazlitt.

Quarrels would never last long, if the fault was only on one side.Rochefoucauld.

The hatred of those who are the most nearly connected, is the most inveterate.-Tacitus.

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over our country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more. Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.-Coleridge.

Quotation, sir, is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it; classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.Johnson.

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In rage, deaf as the sea; hasty as fire.-Shakespeare.

Rage409 is essentially vulgar, and never more vulgar than when it proceeds from mortified pride, disappointed ambition, or thwarted wilfulness.-H. Coleridge.

We cannot learn raillery;.that must be a gift of nature; and I esteem him happy who does not wish to acquire it. The character of sarcasm is dangerous; although this quality makes those laugh whom it does not wound, it, nevertheless, never procures esteem.-Oxenstiern.

Raillery and wit are never made to answer our inquiries after truth, and to determine a question of rational controversy, though they may be sometimes serviceable to expose to contempt those inconsistent follies which have been first abundantly refuted by argument: they serve indeed only to cover nonsense with shame, when reason has proved it to be mere nonsense.-Watts.

The rain is playing its soft, pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds passes with delicate change across my book.-N. P. Willis.

How singular, and yet how simple, the philosophy of rain !196 Who but the Omniscient could have devised such an admirable arrangement for watering the earth?-Ure.

The rainbow, that arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens.-J. C. Prince.

Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it.260. Very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof: it compasseth the heavens about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it.266, 244.— Ecclesiasticus.

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

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.-Wycherly.

Rashness and haste make all things insecure.-Denham.

Rashness is the characteristic of ardent youth, and prudence that of mellowed age.-Cicero.

Read, and refine your appetite; learn to live upon instruction; feast your mind, and mortify your flesh; read, and take your nourishment in at your eyes; shut up your mouth, and chew the cud of understanding.— Congreve.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is 161 a casket of jewels for your household.Tryon Edwards.

Reasons 161 are the pillars of the fabric of discourse, but similitudes are the windows which give the best light.-Fuller.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.391, 439-Sir P. Sidney.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.-Franklin.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time, and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.—Carlyle. Recompense injury with justice, and unkindness with kindness.Confucius.

Forever from the hand that takes one blessing from us, others fall; and soon or late our Father makes his perfect recompense to all.Whittier.

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.-S. I. Prime.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt. He, therefore, that spends his whole time in recreation, is ever whetting, never mowing; his grass may grow and his steed starve. As, contrarily, he that always toils and never recreates, is ever mowing, never whetting; laboring much to little purpose. As good no scythe as no edge.171_ Bishop Hall.

Rectitude is the short cut to integrity.190-Hialmer D. Gould.

A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.—Maria Edgeworth.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.-Hazlitt.

There is no reason why the brown hand of labor should not hold Thomson as well as the sickle. Ornamental reading shelters and even strengthens the growth of what is merely useful. A cornfield never returns a poorer crop because a few wild flowers bloom in the hedge. The refinement of the poor is the triumph of Christian civilization.-Willmott.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but reverie is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.-Tupper. There is one art of which every man should be a master-the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?-Coleridge.

Reform, like charity must begin at home.-Carlyle.

Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they propose to try on others.-Charles I.

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.-Washington.

If your whole life is guided by religion, the hearts of others may be touched by this mute language, and may open to the reception of that spirit which dwells in you.-Schleiermacher.

Remorse632 is beholding heaven and feeling hell191-Moore.

Remorse is the echo of lost virtue.161, 190-Bulwer.

Repartee the impromptu reply, is the touchstone of wit.-Moliere. Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. Repartee is the highest order of wit, as it bespeaks the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius at a moment when the passions are roused-Colton.

Repentance without amendment is like continually pumping without mending the leak.-Dilwyn.

Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the snuff in the face of heaven.161-Lorenzo Dow.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.— Bovee.

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.-Lavater.

Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.191--Solon. Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.-Horace Mann.

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.-Montesquieu.

It is the weakness and danger of republics, that the vices as well as the virtues of the people are represented in their legislation.—Mrs. Mary H. Hunt.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.-Paine.

A reputation once broken, may possibly be repaired; but the world will always keep its eyes on the spot176 where the crack was.-Anon.

Reserve is the truest expression of respect toward those who are its objects.-De Quincey.

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.161 W. R. Alger.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.-Vinet.

Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.Mad. Swetchine.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.-Holland.
Responsibility educates.-Wendell Phillips.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.-Plutarch.

Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast.-David Swing.

God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but remember, he pays in the end.—Anne of Austria,