Love willeth to be raised up, and not to be held down by any mean thing.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

For the unjust is pursuing a reality; he does not live with a view to appearances—he wants to be really unjust and not to seem only:— ‘His mind has a soil deep and fertile, B Out of which spring his prudent counsels.’
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

For the unjust is pursuing a reality; he does not live with a view to appearances—he wants to be really unjust and not to seem only:— 'His mind has a soil deep and fertile, Out of which spring his prudent counsels.
— from The Republic by Plato

Free as he was from all petty vanity, from every feeling of restless, egotistical ambition, still he felt a desire to be really useful, and not to leave inactive the abilities with which God had endowed him.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Many's the time I would be thinking on that when the fog would be round us, and naething to be listening for but the creaking o' a block in the rigging.
— from The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars

His information led him to believe that the Big-Sandy River could be relied upon as navigable to Prestonburg, which was seventy miles from Abingdon by what was supposed to be a good road.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

As for the crew, it grieves me to hear that they are not to be relied upon, and now that I have heard it I realize that should trouble come we three must depend upon ourselves alone.
— from With the Dyaks of Borneo: A Tale of the Head Hunters by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

But resting up appeared not to prove so simple a process as had been anticipated, and the day or two was soon running into weeks.
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison

For the unjust is pursuing a reality; he does not live with a view to appearances—he wants to be really unjust and not to seem only:— His mind has a soil deep and fertile, Out of which spring his prudent counsels.
— from The Republic by Plato

But presently, after a little pause, Mr. Berman remarked upon a new topic: "Well, it's the same as settled that the strike will be over in two days."
— from The Walking Delegate by Leroy Scott