He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“It is magnificent,” continued Beauchamp, “to be able to exercise so much self-control!”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

There shall the luxurious and the lovers of pleasure be plunged into burning pitch and stinking brimstone, and the envious shall howl like mad dogs for very grief.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

" "How very unpleasant you both are this evening!" said Rosamond.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Then came Sir Carados of the dolorous tower, and Sir Turquine, knights of the castle, and there encountered with them Sir Percivale de Galis and Sir Lamorak de Galis, that were two brethren, and there encountered Sir Percivale with Sir Carados, and either brake their spears unto their hands, and then Sir Turquine with Sir Lamorak, and either of them smote down other, horse and all, to the earth, and either parties rescued other and horsed them again.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Again: as the profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for, indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm; and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion; so the graceful repose of the line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being brought into actual play—this is a thing which carries more of true terror than any other aspect of this dangerous affair.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Further, if we ought to shower favours on those who are the most eager suitors,—on that principle, we ought always to do good, not to the most virtuous, but to the most needy; for they are the persons who will be most relieved, and will therefore be the most grateful; and when you make a feast you should invite not your friend, but the beggar and the empty soul; for they will love you, and attend you, and come about your doors, and will be the best pleased, and the most grateful, and will invoke many a blessing on your head.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

There dwelleth mine earthly sister and the king that she hath wed; There morn by morn aforetime I woke on the golden bed; There eve by eve I tarried mid the speech and the lays of kings; There noon by noon I wandered and plucked the blossoming things; The little land of Lymdale by the swirling river's side, Where Brynhild once was I called in the days ere my father died; The little land of Lymdale 'twixt the woodland and the sea, Where on thee mine eyes shall brighten and thine eyes shall beam on me."
— from The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris

But before enumerating cases of animal instinct, a word should be said as to one character which M. Lemoine attributes to instinctive action, namely, “consciousness,” This term is an exceedingly ambiguous one, as it is often referred, not only to our distinct 37 intellectual perception of our own being and acts, but also to every state of feeling however rudimentary it may be.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, May 1885 by Various

He left the vantage point by the stairs and paced between the control boards and their empty swinging seats.
— from The Time Traders by Andre Norton

(c) The franchise should be so broad and the electorates so devised as to secure to all classes of tax-payers their due representation by election and the interests of those communities or groups of communities in Madras and the Bombay Deccan and elsewhere who at present demand special electoral protection should be adequately safeguarded by introducing a system of plural constituencies in which a reasonable number of seats should be reserved for those communities.
— from The Political Future of India by Lala Lajpat Rai

Emigrating in small numbers, they will be able to effect settlements more easily than in large numbers; and without the expence or danger of numerous colonies.
— from Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia by St. George Tucker

The evidence afforded by apparitions, single and collective; by haunted [Pg 186] houses; the indirect testimony afforded by the apparent psychic perception by animals; the evidence, such as it is, for "spirit photography"; the recent experiments in thought-photography, and the photographs made at the séances of Eusapia Palladino, all tend to confirm, it seems to me, the conclusions arrived at by Dr. Baraduc, as the result of his preliminary researches.
— from The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington

Well he remembered how the mother fought for the daughter, but at the end she was slain, and the house burnt, and
— from The Valkyries by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

It is equally proved, on the other hand, that genuine Æsopian or Grecian fables have been attributed to Eastern sources, and are found included in collections of Eastern fables compiled in the earlier years of the Christian era.
— from Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern by Thomas Newbigging

—The flexor muscles bend and the extensors straighten joints (Fig. 114).
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters