If you strengthen and increase it, you will find the reason become docile, more enlightened, and more capable of uniting the speculative interest with the practical.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

He made some commonplace observation upon the baneful effect of the night air at the season.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under his arm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turned down lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand, and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boat-builders’ yards, shipwrights’ yards, ship-breakers’ yards, caulkers’ yards, riggers’ lofts, smiths’ forges, and a great litter of such places, until we came out upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; when Ham said, ‘Yon’s our house, Mas’r Davy!’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

You that are old consider not the capacities of us that are young; you do measure the heat of our livers with the bitterness of your galls; and we that are in the vaward of our youth, must confess, are wags too.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"It's a far different thing when he comes over under the charge of his grandmother, when he's all right."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

When new truths come into view, old truths are thereby reinterpreted and put in a new light; so that the acquisitions of science not only admit of revision but loudly call for it, not wishing for any other authority or vindication than that which they might find in the context of universal truth.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Here also should be included the consideration of programs and projects for community organization upon the basis of primary contacts, as for example, Ward's The Social Center .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Crest of Colonel John Davis, F.S.A., of Bifrons, Hants: A lion's head erased sable, charged with a caltrap or, upon two swords in saltire proper, hilted and pommelled also or.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

His great charge was that they had got a cognovit , or undertaking to pay their costs out of Mrs. Bardell—their own client!
— from Bardell v. Pickwick by Charles Dickens

“3. Resolved , That provision ought to be made by law to render any officer in the Army or Navy of the United States incapable of holding any civil office under the United States.”
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

“But I see also, señor, that one man is kept busy baling with a bucket, so it is evident that the boat leaks badly; and it may be that before they can overtake us they will be obliged to give up and go back to save the boat from swamping under them.”
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

The first chapter, ‘The city of unshed tears,’ deals with Paris, then the next four take the reader to the Italian front on the Isonzo and up among the fighting men in the high Italian Alps.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Our justice presents to us but one hand Our knowledge, which is a wretched foundation Our qualities have no title but in comparison Our will is more obstinate by being opposed Over-circumspect and wary prudence is a mortal enemy Overvalue things, because they are foreign, absent Owe ourselves chiefly and mostly to ourselves Passion has a more absolute command over us than reason Passion has already confounded his judgment Passion of dandling and caressing infants scarcely born Pay very strict usury who did not in due time pay the principal People are willing to be gulled in what they desire People conceiving they have right and title to be judges Perfect friendship I speak of is indivisible Perfect men as they are, they are yet simply men Perfection: but I will not buy it so dear as it costs Perpetual scolding of his wife (of Socrates)
— from Quotes and Images From The Works of Michel De Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne