Learn this, and you stand upright; you can always renew your life.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Take care, and remember your legs."
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

'When some beloved voice that was to you Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly, And silence, against which you dare not cry, Aches round you like a strong disease and new— What hope?
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

It riseth fiue or six miles from this place, among the hilles, and comming downe at last by Lanharne, it crosseth a rill yer long from northeast, and the confluence passeth foorth by Coitchurch, Ogur castell, & so into the Ogur.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

When some beloved voice that was to you Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly, And silence against which you dare not cry, Aches round you like a strong disease and new— What hope?
— from Religious Poems, Selected by Various

Can infinite purity and benevolence behold such monsters with complacency, or could they in his presence otherwise than be filled with intolerable pain and anguish, and fly away as weak-eyed owls from the blaze of the meridian sun?" "Well, Ben, as I said before, I am richly rewarded for having drawn you into this conversation about religion; your language indeed is not always the language of the scriptures; neither do you rest your hopes, as I could have wished, on the Redeemer ; but still your idea in placing our qualification for heaven in resembling God in moral goodness , is truly evangelical, and I hope you will one day become a great christian.
— from The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

Let your Highness resume your place in the choir, and receive your lawful crown, thus triumphing in the very presence of the Czar."
— from The Shadow of the Czar by John R. Carling

If ever I treat you like one of the other chaps, and rot you like I should Turner or Moberley or any of my pals well, this is what comes of it."
— from The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

she cried, caressing him again and again as she gazed rapturously at the beautiful face, so full of dignity: "You shall not make the sacrifice for a single hour, your wife will come and reward your loyalty with a thousand-fold greater love.
— from On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern