This brother man, if not Epic for us, is Tragic; if not great, is large; large in his qualities, world-large in his destinies.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

488 Lessing's friendship with Moses Mendelssohn has led to the popular theory, unsupported however by any real evidence, that the Jewish philosopher of Berlin provided the inspiration for the character of Nathan, but might it not equally have been provided by the miracle-worker of Brunswick?
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

for, if one may speak somewhat boldly, man is naught else than a god with mortal body, and a god naught else than a man without body and therefore immortal , and we are not far sundered from divine Power.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

It was not that I was afraid you would betray me (I never even thought of that), but I thought, ‘How can I look him in the face if I don't confess?’
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Since, then, they do not annoy us by any expression of pain we call them emotionless; and so quâ mankind they are; but mankind is not everybody.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Believe me, I never even knew of Alan’s death until I saw the reports of Davie’s trial.”
— from The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy

The weakness of these faiths is in their isolation; and if their sap could but mingle, if no element were lost which they can draw from the root of the vine, a young frondescent life would show itself again.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

180 is described in the Catalogue of the Museum, R.I.A. , as a “whorl,” in which a portion of the lower end of the bone spindle still projects; but might it not equally be supposed to represent a chessman—possibly a pawn—judging from the simple outlines of its projecting portion?
— from The Lake Dwellings of Ireland Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs. by W. G. (William Gregory) Wood-Martin

Heaven bless me, I never enter'd with such unholy thoughts This place before.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 07 of 10 by John Fletcher

I quote these tales, which have been mentioned in nearly every book on Tibet, as typical of the country.
— from The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler

But man is not entirely at the mercy of this fate.
— from Ethics and Modern Thought: A Theory of Their Relations by Rudolf Eucken

A careful examination of this class, in comparison with the preceding, 114 proves them to be essentially one in meaning, the difference being mainly if not entirely in degree.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

If they don’t start something pretty soon, I’m going to take my gun and do a little war dance over to their part of the island all by myself if nobody else will come with me.”
— from The Radio Boys Under the Sea; or, The Hunt for Sunken Treasure by J. W. Duffield

All things considered, it is remarkable that peace should have been maintained in New England from 1637 to 1675; and probably nothing short of the consuming vengeance wrought upon the Pequots could have done it.
— from The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty by John Fiske

Hence the differences between men in natural endowment are insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell