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be independent never to

For that they are bound by the adamantine chain of destiny is most certain, if it be proved that they are never to exercise their own reason, never to be independent, never to rise above opinion, or to feel the dignity of a rational will that only bows to God, and often forgets that the universe contains any being but itself, and the model of perfection to which its ardent gaze is turned, to adore attributes that, softened into virtues, may be imitated in kind, though the degree overwhelms the enraptured mind.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

because it never thunders

You never need a lightning-rod, because it never thunders and it never lightens.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

boil it not too

You may boil half an ounce of it at a time, in water or white wine, but boil it not too much; half an ounce is a moderate dose to be boiled for any reasonable body.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

but if never to

All this was in the mind of Adrian; but he thought of my children, and, instead of communicating to me these resources of despair, he called up the image of health and life to be found, where we knew not—when we knew not; but if never to be found, for ever and for ever to be sought.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But is not this

But is not this unjust?
— from The Republic by Plato

But if not the

But if not, the bird is carried to a certain Baron, who is styled the Bularguchi , which is as much as to say "The Keeper of Lost Property."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

brickfielder is not the

Frank Fowler, `The Athenaeum,' Feb. 21, p. 264, col. 1: "The `brickfielder' is not the hot wind at all; it is but another name for the cold wind, or southerly buster, which follows the hot breeze, and which, blowing over an extensive sweep of sandhills called the Brickfields, semi-circling Sydney, carries a thick cloud of dust (or `brickfielder') across the city."
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

busy itself not to

Now German diplomacy must busy itself, not to keep them at her side, but to prevent their going with the adversary.
— from Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

but I now tell

I have said nothing about it, but I now tell you, if you don't stop it you shall be cursed by the Almighty and shall dwindle away and be damned.
— from William Clayton's Journal A Daily Record of the Journey of the Original Company of "Mormon" Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake by William Clayton

been in Norfolk to

Indeed, Oxford had just been in Norfolk, to assure himself that no precautions were omitted; and the coast was so vigilantly guarded by his brother, George De Vere, that an attempt to land would have been rushing on certain destruction.
— from The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster by John G. (John George) Edgar

born in no time

You’re born in no time, you’re married in no time, you live no time, you die in no time, you’re forgotten in no time—— Hugh Murray.
— from The Profligate: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

but I never thought

I've done my best to bring her up well, but I never thought of her turning into a fine lady.
— from Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

but it none the

Death before dishonor is a phrase which at times has been abused infamously, but it none the less contains a vital truth.
— from The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

below is nothing to

"When you teach children that life here below is nothing to the life above, that to be visible is nothing in comparison to being invisible, that to be a human being is far inferior to being an angel, that to live is not by any means equal to being dead, is that the way to teach them to view life properly, or to love life, to gain courage for life, vigor for work, and patriotism?"
— from Magnhild; Dust by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

but I notice that

“Of course I know you are my friend, Holl, and I appreciate it; but I notice that money always makes you much more willing to do a friendly turn.”
— from Frank Merriwell's Endurance; or, A Square Shooter by Burt L. Standish

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