The ascetic ideal has an aim— this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should, measured by its standard, appear petty and narrow; it explains epochs, nations, men, in reference to this one end; it forbids any other interpretation, any other end; it repudiates, denies, affirms, confirms, only in the sense of its own interpretation (and was there ever a more thoroughly elaborated system of interpretation?); it subjects itself to no power, rather does it believe in its own precedence over every power—it believes that nothing powerful exists in the world that has not first got to receive from "it" a meaning, a right to exist, a value, as being an instrument in its work, a way and means to its end, to one end.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

5. ex metu in morbos graves incidunt et noctu dormientes clamant , for fear they fall into many diseases, and cry out in their sleep, and are much the worse for it all their lives: these things ought not at all, or to be sparingly done, and upon just occasion.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I walked a little without stopping, crossed the orchards to shorten the distance and came out into the street of San Lázaro, whence already may be seen in the distance the convent of San Jerónimo.
— from Romantic legends of Spain by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Then he pushed open the door, and crawled out into the sunlight.
— from The Martian by A. R. (Alec Rowley) Hilliard

When we had ascended about one third of the way, the men above sent down a cake of ice that seemed at first view to threaten the passengers on the side track.
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell

After this, Barron demanded a Court of Inquiry, to settle this point.
— from Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2) by Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius) Sargent

The sun was shining on the snow when the tailor got up and dressed, and came out into the street with Simpkin running before him.
— from The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter

The demoralization and confusion of Italy, the shameless profligacy of Rome and her pontiffs during this period, were enough to prevent a true Italian kingdom from being built up on the basis of Roman choice and national unity.
— from The Holy Roman Empire by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Sows may be wintered [219] on alfalfa with one ear of corn a day and come out in the spring in fit condition to suckle a fine litter of pigs.
— from Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm. by Herbert A. Shearer

How was I dismayed and confounded on inspecting the shelves to perceive that the atlas was gone.
— from Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (A Fragment) by Charles Brockden Brown