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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
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