Cedat amor rebus; res age, tutus eris —Let love give way to business; give attention to business, and you will be safe.
— 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.

Compare Ovid, "Cedit amor rebus: res age, tutus eris." 92 Sophocles, Fragm.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The three of them removed his coat, turned up the sleeve of his right arm, and finally passed a rope round above the elbows and made it fast.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

If I be urged, I will as readily reply as that Egyptian in [8] Plutarch, when a curious fellow would needs know what he had in his basket, Quum vides velatam, quid inquiris in rem absconditam ?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[5604] Cedit amor rebus; res, age tutus eris .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Using my knife, I discovered that the light proceeded from that portion of the sapwood immediately under the bark, and thus presented a regular ring at the end, and when I pared off the bark and cut into the sap, it was all aglow along the log.
— from Canoeing in the wilderness by Henry David Thoreau

When night came he did not return, as was understood to be the arrangement, and the adjutant, driving up in the ambulance immediately after retreat, reappeared at tattoo, escorting Calvin; and Calvin, perceptibly intoxicated, was conducted to his quarters, and bidden there to abide in close arrest.
— from Campaigning with Crook, and Stories of Army Life by Charles King

Using my knife, I discovered that the light proceeded from that portion of the sap-wood immediately under the bark, and thus presented a regular ring at the end, which, indeed, appeared raised above the level of the wood, and when I pared off the bark and cut into the sap, it was all aglow along the log.
— from The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

144: Cedit amor rebus: res age, tutus eris.
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

Above the general chaos floated a red rag at the extremity of a tall mast.
— from Twenty-six and One, and Other Stories by Maksim Gorky

To these questions the science now in fashion always has a reply ready: adaptation to environment.
— from More Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre

[Pg 221] four, published A Vindication of Natural Society , in a Letter to Lord——. By a late noble writer , in which Lord Bolingbroke's style is imitated, and his arguments against revealed religion applied to exhibit 'the miseries and evils arising to mankind from every species of Artificial Society.'
— from The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis

But so mixed are the minds of men that at this very moment there was born within him the germ of a real revolt against the entry of his little daughter into this family of hotheads.
— from The Freelands by John Galsworthy

The Amazing Robotron returned at the end of the second day.
— from Home Again, Home Again by Cory Doctorow