For pride and humility are pure emotions in the soul, unattended with any desire, and not immediately exciting us to action.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

A virtue must be our invention, our most personal defence and need: in every other sense it is merely a danger.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

" Chapter 4 He was not Mr Wentworth, the former curate of Monkford, however suspicious appearances may be, but a Captain Frederick Wentworth, his brother, who being made commander in consequence of the action off St Domingo, and not immediately employed, had come into Somersetshire, in the summer of 1806; and having no parent living, found a home for half a year at Monkford.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

The cycle, for example, of day and night is everywhere, except in the polar regions, so short and hence so frequent that men probably soon ceased to discompose themselves seriously as to the chance of its failing to recur, though the ancient Egyptians, as we have seen, daily wrought enchantments to bring back to the east in the morning the fiery orb which had sunk at evening in the crimson west.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The visual blindness of the majority of people is greatly to be deplored, as nature is ever offering them on their retina, even in the meanest slum, a music of colour and form that is a constant source of pleasure to those who can see it.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

What think ye now in time of fear, When peril and distress are near, In every doubt the wise depend For counsel on a faithful friend.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

A reward of five pesos sends fifty dastardly Spaniards into the wood, who, with long knives, scour them day and night in eager hopes of securing their prey.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Note 111 ( return ) [ It was this army of pilgrims, the first body of which was headed by the archbishop of Milan and Count Albert of Blandras, which set forth on the wild, yet, with a more disciplined army, not impolitic, enterprise of striking at the heart of the Mahometan power, by attacking the sultan in Bagdad.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Sixty or more societies have engaged in coöperative farming, but only half a dozen are now in existence.
— from An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney

The barrel-organs which resound day and night in every street, and are at other times insufferable, are favourable to such a state of mind.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

So that world-famous tragedy goes on by night as well as by day, and nature is emphatically wrong.
— from Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

FOOTNOTES: [4] An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 by Various

He is a good embalmer, reticent of speech and his belief in death and nothingness if expressed would neither find believers nor corrupt our faith.
— from Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Mathew Joseph Holt

They passed their days and nights in eating and drinking wine, and in their drunkenness they forgot their people, and the mission on which they had been sent.
— from Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

“The Alps are the greatest barrier, but my agents tell me that the difficulties are not insuperable even for elephants.
— from The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

But, after signal losses and defeats, as nothing is ever more odious to the multitude than unsuccessful war, so the popular feeling was such as to induce the government to enact a decree, by which it was forbidden, upon pain of death, to propose reasserting the Athenian claims.
— from Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron