Pleasure soon exhausts us, and itself also but endeavour never does.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

290 Daughter of God and Man, immortal Eve, For such thou art, from sin and blame entire: Not diffident of thee do I dissuade Thy absence from my sight, but to avoid Th' attempt it self, intended by our Foe.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

To whom with healing words Adam reply’d. Daughter of God and Man, immortal Eve , For such thou art, from sin and blame entire: Not diffident of thee do I dissuade Thy absence from my sight, but to avoid Th’ attempt it self, intended by our Foe.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

For such thou art; from sin and blame entire: Not diffident of thee do I dissuade Thy absence from my sight, but to avoid The attempt itself, intended by our foe.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Buffon and Bewick err (no doubt, unintentionally) when they say that the barn owl snores during its repose.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832 by Various

They began the voyage as strangers and ended it as an engaged couple—the affair being expedited, no doubt, by the fact that, even if it ever occurred to Bingley to resist the onslaught on his bachelor peace, he soon realised the futility of doing so, for the cramped conditions of ship-board intensified the always overwhelming effects of his future bride's determined nature.
— from Piccadilly Jim by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

How far we have come from that temper which recognises Him in all joys, and begins every new day with Him!
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

He came to a bad end, no doubt: he had become a robber and must have met with a robber's fate.
— from The Mason-Bees by Jean-Henri Fabre

The officers were agreeable but evinced no desire to urge us to enlist, and they informed us of an old rule in the Legion, that an applicant will not be examined or accepted until the day following his application.
— from Kelly of the Foreign Legion: Letters of Légionnaire Russell A. Kelly by Russell Anthony Kelly

For they were living still, the legend always said—the chief and his household, and beautiful Eileen; not dead at all, but only sleeping an enchanted sleep, till some one of the M'Swynes should come and kill the black cat who guarded them, and set them free.
— from The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs. Molesworth