What is believed, however true it may be, is not the actual fact that makes the belief true, but a present event related to the fact.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

But it was more piteous than violent, and she seemed to listen while Janetta tried to comfort her, and passively endured rather than returned the elder sister's caresses.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

But a longer, sharper scrutiny, a profounder examination, reveals to him his soul's most secret depth; and the fact of his spiritual personality glows refulgent in the calm light of consciousness.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

With an impulsive gesture Christie stretched her hands to the friends about her, and with one accord they laid theirs on hers, a loving league of sisters, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, each ready to do her part to hasten the coming of the happy end.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

It is observable that a retired mode of life has an exceedingly beneficial influence on our peace of mind, and this is mainly because we thus escape having to live constantly in the sight of others, and pay everlasting regard to their casual opinions; in a word, we are able to return upon ourselves.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Light of heart and foot, he stepped aft, and there was met by Don Benito's servant, who, with a pleasing expression, responsive to his own present feelings, informed him that his master had recovered from the effects of his coughing fit, and had just ordered him to go present his compliments to his good guest, Don Amasa, and say that he (Don Benito) would soon have the happiness to rejoin him.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Analogies drawn from moral and passionate experience replace the further portraiture of outer facts.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Nevertheless, after several attempts at conversation with Olivain he foresaw that many days passed thus would prove exceedingly dull; and the count’s agreeable voice, his gentle and persuasive eloquence, recurred to his mind at the various towns through which they journeyed and about which he had no longer any one to give him those interesting details which he would have drawn from Athos, the most amusing and the best informed of guides.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

[73] By means of radiocarbon and, here and there, newer and perhaps equally refined techniques, anthropologists are beginning to learn a little more about the relationships in time and culture between the prehistoric makers of the weapons and tools we have described.
— from Early Man in the New World by Joseph A. Hester

“They call him,” answered Philippa, “Earl Richard the Copped-Hat.”
— from The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel by Emily Sarah Holt

For remember how absolutely fixed and limited are plants, each rooted to the soil in a single small spot, each tied by strict conditions of rock, and water-supply, and air, and wind, and sun, and climate, from which none can escape, try they all their hardest.
— from Moorland Idylls by Grant Allen

“Well, if you don't mind, we'll have the beaker, and pass 'en round; 'tis better than heling it out in dribbles.”
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Billy Veal had declared that it offered a perfectly easy route through to the Black Mountain spur for which the party was heading.
— from The Pony Rider Boys on the Blue Ridge; or, A Lucky Find in the Carolina Mountains by Frank Gee Patchin

This having been effected, the internal organs were submitted to analysis by Professor Maclagan, Dr. Littlejohn, and Professor Penny of Glasgow, who, after a protracted examination, reported that the death of Mrs. Taylor, like that of her daughter, was due to poisoning by antimony.
— from Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries by C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel) Thompson

As Jessie's interest in the outer world and passing events revived, this blemish would vanish.
— from Jessamine: A Novel by Marion Harland

In Cicero we see how feeble and wavering a guide to life in a period of trouble philosophy had become, and how one who wished to stand in the attitude of chief thinker of his times was no more than a servile copyist of Grecian predecessors, giving to his works not an air of masculine [258] Cicero. and independent thought, but aiming at present effect rather than a solid durability; for Cicero addresses himself more to the public than to philosophers, exhibiting herein his professional tendency as an advocate.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

It was easy to imitate the air and manners of such a man, and not less by such imitation alone to arrive at the contemptible fame among persons equally ready to encourage the practice and accuse the practitioner.
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

Ounalaska, or rather the village and harbor of Iliuliuk, upon the island of Ounalaska, is the principal and most frequented harbor in the Aleutian islands, and from its position is a most convenient port for coaling, watering and provisioning en route to the Seal islands, St. Michaels (at the mouth of the Yukon river), the anchorages in and near Bering strait, and the Arctic ocean.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 3, July, 1890 by Various