o life?
1456
SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
Of recreation there is none
So free as Fishing is alone;
All other pastimes do no less
Than mind and body both possess:
My hand alone my work can do,
So I can fish and study too.
1457
IZAAK WALTON: _The Complete Angler._ _The Angler's Song._
=Redress.=
What need we any spur but our own cause
To prick us to redress.
1458
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.
=Reflection.=
Remembrance and reflection how allied!
What thin partitions sense from thought divide!
1459
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 225.
=Reformation.=
'Tis the talent of our English nation,
Still to be plotting some new Reformation.
1460
DRYDEN: _Sophonisba,_ Prologue.
=Regret.=
O last regret, regret can die!
1461
TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ lxxviii., St. 5.
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret.
Oh death in life, the days that are no more!
1462
TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iv., Line 36.
=Religion.=
In Religion
What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it, and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament.
1463
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.
Religion is a spring,
That from some secret, golden mine
Derives her birth, and thence doth bring
Cordials in every drop, and wine.
1464
HENRY VAUGHAN: _Religion._
Religion crowns the statesman and the man,
Sole source of public and of private peace.
1465
YOUNG: _Public Situation of the Kingdom,_ Line 500.
Pity Religion has so seldom found
A skilful guide into poetic ground!
1466
COWPER: _Table Talk,_ Line 17.
Religion stands on tiptoe in our land,
Ready to pass to the American strand.
1467
HERBERT: _The Church Militant._
=Remedies.=
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to Heaven; the fated sky
Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull
Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
1468
SHAKS.: _All 's Well,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
=Remembrance.=
The setting sun, and music at the close,
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
Writ in remembrance more than things long past.
1469
SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.
Praising what is lost,
Makes the remembrance dear.
1470
SHAKS.: _All 's Well,_ Act v., Sc. 3.
I've been so long remembered, I'm forgot.
1471
YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night iv., Line 57.
I remember, I remember,
The fir trees dark and h
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