A prejudice is a fond obstinate persuasion, for which we can give no reason; for the moment a reason can be given for an opinion, it ceases to be a prejudice, though it may be an error in judgment: and are we then advised to cherish opinions only to set reason at defiance?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

It will be good for both of you.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

But because God foresaw all things, and was therefore not ignorant that man also would fall, we ought to consider this holy city in connection with what God foresaw and ordained, and not according to our own ideas, which do not embrace God's ordination.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

And I'm not sure that the excitement will be good for Anne."
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

I may not be good for much, but he dislikes me because I disagree with him.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But God freed Joseph from his confinement, after he had endured his bonds two years, and had received no assistance from the cupbearer, who did not remember what he had said to him formerly; and God contrived this method of deliverance for him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I don't care anything about Thaddeus, plan for him yourselves; make him a steward, or put him in a tavern; let him be a bar-tender, or bring game for your table from the woods; do with him whatever you wish!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

But in spite of their loving protests, Katharine tore herself away: from the beautiful Gudbrandsdal, from the quaint and simple peasant life, from the surroundings which were hallowed for ever in her memory.
— from Katharine Frensham: A Novel by Beatrice Harraden

35 “How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.”—Krafft-Ebing, “P.S.,” 7th ed., p. 228.
— from The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women by Edward Carpenter

Mr. Bayard submitted the following resolution, to wit: Resolved , That, in the event of its appearing upon the counting and ascertaining of the votes given for President and Vice President, according to the mode prescribed by the constitution, that an equal number [Pg 523] of votes have been given for two persons, that as soon as the same shall have been duly declared and entered on the journals of this House, that the Speaker, accompanied by the members of the House, shall return to this Chamber, and shall immediately proceed to choose one of the two candidates for President; and in case, upon the first ballot, there shall not appear to be a majority of the States in favor of one of the candidates, in such case the House shall continue to ballot for President, without interruption by other business, until it shall appear that a President is duly chosen; and, if no such choice should be made upon the first day, the House shall continue to ballot from day to day, till a choice shall be duly made.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

[31] The method of comparison consists, as will already have been gathered from the perusal of the foregoing sections, in:—first, stimulating the tentacles, and observing whether this is followed by such a discharge of the attached ganglion as causes the bell to contract; next, stimulating the bell itself, to ascertain whether the muscular irritability is impaired; and, lastly, stimulating either the tentacles or the bell, to observe whether the reciprocal connections between tentacles, bell, and manubrium are uninjured.
— from Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems by George John Romanes

The report of the battle, by an eye-witness, that was issued upon semiofficial authority of the British Government, follows: First Phase, 3.30 P.M.
— from History of the World War, Vol. 3 by Richard Joseph Beamish

In poetry, as well as writing in general, it will never make entirely a poet or a poem; but neither poet nor poem will ever be good for any thing without it.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

Still, I know you want to get across with the kid, and if you stay around until I sail it may be months before you get to New York, with the chance of losing her by getting foul of English law.
— from The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson

He saw his mother's skirt go up into a blaze and like a flash tore the burning garment from her.
— from Marching on Niagara; Or, The Soldier Boys of the Old Frontier by Edward Stratemeyer