It may now, perhaps, be expected that before we conclude this moral enquiry, we should exactly separate the one from the other; should mark the precise boundaries of virtues and talents, vices and defects; and should explain the reason and origin of that distinction.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

And, if I may mention so delicate a subject, endeavour to check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence, which your lady possesses.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

And there are many other devices in every danger, by which to avoid death, if a man dares to do and say every thing.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

But it did not tear any more after it got to the outskirts; it dragged along stupidly enough, then—till it came in sight of the next hamlet; and then the bugle tooted gaily again and again the vehicle went tearing by the horses.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

I do not much lament the dead, and should envy them rather; but I very much lament the dying.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

When Araucanians meet, the inquiries, felicitations, and condolences which custom demands are so elaborate that "the formality occupies ten or fifteen minutes."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The far greater part were slain or driven into the Danube; and Sigismond, escaping to Constantinople by the river and the Black Sea, returned after a long circuit to his exhausted kingdom.
— 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

But still at last he yielded up the ghost: though long ago He might have died, and so escaped the evils that befell him.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

He forthwith deposited a sum equal to the debt in the hands of the magistrate, who ventured to set his brother at liberty without farther process; and then the whole family repaired to the inn with my uncle, attended by the crowd, the individuals of which shook their townsman by the hand, while he returned their caresses without the least sign of pride or affectation.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

What shall I sing of thee, my ship, Lone center of this orb of blue, Horizoned by the rosy light Of peeping dawn, and sleeping evening too?
— from In Macao by Charles A. Gunnison

127 Wilmart, A. Dom, Auteurs spirituels et textes dévots du moyen âge Latin.
— from The Medieval Latin Hymn by Ruth Ellis Messenger

After that for a full hour it was cut and drag, cut and drag, a seemingly endless task.
— from Third Warning A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

But, worse than all, daily instances occurred of assassination by peasants, who sometimes dressed as sutlers entered the camp, and took the opportunity to stab or shoot our officers, caring nothing, as it seemed, for the certain death that awaited them.
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

She did and said every thing that her tender heart could invent to arouse the sufferer from his reveries; but all her efforts were in vain: her father thanked her with a smile and caress; but the smile was sad, the caress constrained and feeble.
— from The Poor Gentleman by Hendrik Conscience

Imilco dispatched a secret envoy to Dionysius, offering three hundred talents if the fleet was allowed to sail away unmolested to Africa.
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

This cerebral volume seems to me even to exceed that with which at the present day a stature equal to that of our cave-folks would be associated; whilst the skulls from the Belgium caves are small, not only absolutely, but even relatively in the rather small stature of the inhabitants of those caves.”
— from The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

Certainly you can develop any selected element to higher activity and use it to help you sell true ideas of your best capabilities.
— from Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins