RESOLUTION.

  Be stirring as the time:  be fire with fire: 
  Threaten the threatener and outface the brow
  Of bragging horror:  so shall inferior eyes,
  That borrow their behaviors from the great,
  Grow great by your example and put on
  The dauntless spirit of resolution.
King John, Act v.  Sc. 1.  SHAKESPEARE.

My resolution ’s placed, and I have nothing
Of woman in me:  now from head to foot
I am marble—­constant.
Antony and Cleopatra, Act v.  Sc. 2.  SHAKESPEARE.

                           When two
  Join in the same adventure, one perceives
  Before the other how they ought to act;
  While one alone, however prompt, resolves
  More tardily and with a weaker will.
Iliad, Bk.  X.  HOMER. Trans. of BRYANT.

I pull in resolution, and begin
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
That lies like truth:  “Fear not, till Birnam wood
Do come to Dunsinane.”
Macbeth, Act v.  Sc. 5.  SHAKESPEARE.

  In life’s small things be resolute and great
  To keep thy muscle trained:  know’st thou when Fate
  Thy measure takes, or when she’ll say to thee,
  “I find thee worthy; do this deed for me”?
Epigram.  J.R.  LOWELL.

REST.

  Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed;
  A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light,
  A rosie garland, and a weary hed.
Astrophel and Stella.  SIR PH.  SIDNEY.

  And to tired limbs and over-busy thoughts,
  Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness.
The Excursion, Bk.  IV.  W. WORDSWORTH.

  The wind breathed soft as lover’s sigh,
  And, oft renewed, seemed oft to die,
    With breathless pause between,
  O who, with speech of war and woes,
  Would wish to break the soft repose
    Of such enchanting scene!
Lord of the Isles, Canto IV.  SIR W. SCOTT.

  Our foster-nurse of Nature is repose,
  The which he lacks; that to provoke in him,
  Are many simples operative, whose power
  Will close the eye of anguish.
King Lear, Act iv.  Sc. 4.  SHAKESPEARE.

These should be hours for necessities,
Not for delights; times to repair our nature
With comforting repose, and not for us
To waste these times.
King Henry VIII., Act v.  Sc. 1.  SHAKESPEARE.

Who pants for glory finds but short repose;
A breath revives him, or a breath o’erthrows.
Epistles of Horace, Ep.  I. Bk.  I.  J. DRYDEN.

                               Where peace
  And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
  That comes to all.
Paradise Lost, Bk.  I.  MILTON.

Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Retirement.  W. COWPER.

RETRIBUTION.