And in every point of view the soul is the image of divinity and immortality, and the body of the human and mortal.
— from Phaedo by Plato

As there are many beauties of the face, so the beauties of the hand are many.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

But”—Adam continued, in a decided tone—“I shouldn't like to make any offers to Mr. Burge, or t' have any made for me.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

But King Arthur answered not, and gave him such a buffet on the helm as made him stagger and nigh fall upon the ground.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

All this I have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking me, the soul is lacking; I take myself off, everything dies: and this woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I fortunately spied the door lying among some old boards at the back of the house, and Moodie immediately commenced fitting it to its place.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Others, they question how they can be distinguished from such as mollify, seeing such [389] as are loosening, and such as are emolient, are both of them hot and moist.
— 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

For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The first good news the world and mankind received was that which the angels announced on the night that was our day, when they sang in the air, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth to men of good-will;’ and the salutation which the great Master of heaven and earth taught his disciples and chosen followers when they entered any house, was to say, ‘Peace be on this house;’ and many other times he said to them, ‘My peace I give unto you, my peace I leave you, peace be with you;’ a jewel and a precious gift given and left by such a hand: a jewel without which there can be no happiness either on earth or in heaven.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Moreover all Change did not in the least depend on the heterogeneity of those substances but on their homogeneity, as matter.
— from Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Nevertheless, perspective was needed—perspective, and vision of such scope that you had a clear mental picture, not of misguided individuals, who must die some time or other and might as well do so in the discharge of what it pleased them to call their “duty,” but of millions of our gentle and dark-skinned brothers, waiting in rows with baskets on their heads (and making simply ripping friezes) while the Banks paid in pennies, and then holding lots of righteous and picturesque Meetings, all about Tyrant England and throwing off the Yoke.
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions

The work goes on until 7 or 7.30 p.m., with a break of two hours at mid-day, and spells of twenty minutes in the morning and afternoon.
— from Wheat Growing in Australia by Australia. Department of External Affairs

The boy of twenty had already mastered the secret of elegiac verse, which even Catullus had used stiffly and awkwardly, and writes it with an ease, a colour, a sumptuousness of rhythm which no later poet ever equalled.
— from Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail

[1969] The anti-negro bands of the hills and mountains were rather of the spurious Ku Klux and were largely composed of tories and Radicals.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

The mate bent on the hawser, and men picked up great coils of it and flung them overboard.
— from Gold Out of Celebes by Aylward Edward Dingle

Adhere to that unhappy man, and by to-morrow's sunset your offended king will be on these hills, and mercy shall be no more!
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

The following month the same party attacked a section gang near Potter Station, driving them in and running off a bunch of twenty horses and mules.
— from The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad Its Projectors, Construction and History by William Francis Bailey