Servetur ad imum / Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet —Let the character be kept up to the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

This was an augmentation conferred by King William III., and a very similar augmentation (in the 1st and 4th quarters, azure, three oranges slipped proper within an orle of thistles or) was granted to Livingstone, Viscount Teviot.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

19 The course of the Chambal, not reckoning the minor sinuosities, is upwards of five hundred miles; [45] and along its banks specimens of nearly every race now existing in India may be found: Sondis, Chandarawats, Sesodias, Haras, Gaur, Jadon, Sakarwal, Gujar, Jat, [46] Tuar, Chauhan, Bhadauria, Kachhwaha, Sengar, Bundela; each in associations of various magnitudes, from the substantive state of the little republic communes between the Chambal and Kuwari
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Punctual to the time, at the half-hour's end the carriage came rumbling under the gateway, and they took me down, warmed, refreshed, comforted by kindness, and safe (I assured them) not to faint any more.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This is my friend, Abel, an honest fellow; He lets me have good tobacco, and he does not Sophisticate it with sack-lees or oil, Nor washes it in muscadel and grains, Nor buries it in gravel, under ground, Wrapp'd up in greasy leather, or piss'd clouts: But keeps it in fine lily pots, that, open'd, Smell like conserve of roses, or French beans.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

He, then, during the following months, kept his army continually hovering in the neighbourhood of the enemy, his superior knowledge of the country enabling him to occupy beforehand all the posts of vantage; and having supplies in abundance on his rear, he never allowed his soldiers to go on foraging expeditions, or get separated, on any pretence, from the camp; but keeping them continually massed together and in close union, he watched for favourable opportunities of time and place; and by this method of proceeding captured and killed a large number of the enemy, who in their contempt of him straggled from their camp in search of plunder.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

So again with the varieties of sheep: it has been asserted that certain mountain-varieties will starve out other mountain-varieties, so that they cannot be kept together.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

'Thou canst not choose but know who I am.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

The ancient times do set forth in figure both the incorporation and inseparable conjunction of counsel with kings, and the wise and politic use of counsel by kings; the one, in that they say Jupiter did marry Metis, which signifieth counsel; whereby they intend that sovereignty is married to counsel; the 145 other in that which followeth, which was thus: they say, after Jupiter was married to Metis, she conceived by him and was with child; but Jupiter suffered her not to stay till she brought forth, but eat her up; whereby he became himself with child, and was delivered of Pallas armed, out of his head.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Minstrel Weather Minstrel Weather by Marian Storm Minstrel Weather BY MARIAN STORM With Illustrations and Decorations By Clinton Balmer Knowledge, we are not foes.
— from Minstrel Weather by Marian Storm

Clean bodies, kind hearts, sweet souls, Delight and delighted endeavour, A spirit that chants and trolls, A world that doth ne'er dissever
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 by Various

Comedies abound (though they reach the stage only by accident) in which the obstacle between Corydon and Phyllis, between Lord Edwin and Lady Angelina, is not even a defect or peculiarity of character, but simply some trumpery misunderstanding [15] which can be kept afoot only so long as every one concerned holds his or her common sense in studious abeyance.
— from Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

The following points, then, would appear to embrace all that can be known on this subject.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

It could be kind of insinuating circumstances why I left and everything like that.
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Of course, they saw nothing suspicious and came back, keeping their word.
— from A Little Girl in Old Salem by Amanda M. Douglas

We have made up our minds to be as happy as we can be, knowing that the way to be happy is to make others so, that the time to be happy is now, whether that now is Sunday or any other day in the week.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

" Then as they shook hands he dutifully said "How are you, sir?" "How are you, my boy?" answered the Senator casually but kindly.
— from Wounds in the rain: War stories by Stephen Crane