Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; 25 for there is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
— 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.

I lend myself my patience somewhat too cheap, in accidents that do not privately assail me; and do not so much regard what they take from me, as what remains safe, both within and without.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He pushed on for another mile, and did not slacken speed until he stood at the entrance of a road called Camelia Road which was at present his home.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

But I am shepherd to another man, And do not shear the fleeces that I graze.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

To make the coin now in the treasury available for the objects of this reserve, to gradually strengthen and enlarge that reserve, and to provide for such other exceptional demands for coin as may arise, does not seem to me a work of difficulty.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political by Robert Green Ingersoll

The religious consciousness of a later age is no longer satisfied with a Jehovah who is from head to foot a man, and does not shrink from becoming visible as such.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

4 The present writer, in carrying on researches dealing with Asia Minor, came upon Dr. Dieterich’s study, and, after reading it, thought that it would be better to publish this essay than to write a new one, inasmuch as he noticed that, with the exception of a few observations which were to be expected from a German writer, the author gives, on the whole, an accurate and impartial account of the condition of things in Asia Minor, and does not seem to share the views of many of the civil and military officials of Germany, who consider that the existence of the Hellenic element there is detrimental to the interests of Deutschtum.
— from Hellenism in Asia Minor by Karl Dieterich

The future was still open to him, and he determined to fill it with joys for her which should in some measure compensate her for the sorrow and suffering of the past; for George regarded poverty and want as misery, and did not see how his mother could have been contented, as she professed to have been.
— from The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton by Oliver Optic

The most salient distinction, perhaps, is that of the Scotch being a musical and dancing nation; something from which the New-Englanders are fatally far removed.
— from A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

"O Edward!" said Florence, coloring; "do not bring up my foolish speeches against me, and do not speak as if I ought to interfere in this matter, for indeed I cannot do it.
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This rule, however, has been broken in upon; and as it unluckily happens that the females are generally a favourite subject for the tirades of that class of writers, their random assertions on subjects they had no means of investigating, and most assuredly did not speak of from their own knowledge and experience, have made both the Gaditanas and Malaguanas, and their relations and countrymen, extremely irate."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

The Sanskrit translations for the glorious Al Mamun, 813 to 833, those mentioned in the Sikust (980), and for the enlightened Akbar, 1556 to 1615, seem to have been unknown to European scholars, who throughout the early and middle ages do not strike us as having been remarkable for zeal and application.
— from Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. (Henry Edward) Bird

Mrs Delvile for a few minutes was silent; and then, following her, said, “Imagine not I am making any discovery, nor suspect me of any design to develop your sentiments.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney