Day follows the murkiest night; and when the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen.
— 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.

The following may serve as a guide to the scoring of wood-wind chords: the harmonic basis should differ from the melody not only in fullness and intensity of tone, but also in colour.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

I then locked the door, and put the key in my pocket, and was in a sad quandary; but I was soon determined; for the maid Nan came in sight, and asked, if any thing was the matter, that I was so often up and down stairs?
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Sit down, for thou must now know farther.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

When the business of the husbandman devolves not on the citizen, the matter is much easier settled; but when those labour together who have a common right of possession, this may occasion several difficulties; for there may not be an equal proportion between their labour and what they consume; and those who labour hard and have but a small proportion of the produce, will certainly complain of those who take a large share of it and do but little for that.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

But he threw them to them from a distance; for they might not come near the cherub by reason of their flesh, that could not come near the fire.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

but for all that at the last thou must needs die, but, an thou canst through thy mighty prowess, win unto yonder postern, for there have I fastened thy horse to abide thee: but wit thou well thou must think on thy worship, and think not to die, for thou mayst not win unto that postern without thou do nobly and mightily.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

"No," said Don Fernando, "that must not be, for I want Dorothea to follow out this idea of hers; and if the worthy gentleman's village is not very far off, I shall be happy if I can do anything for his relief."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

These flowers may rise amid the dewy fern, They may not root within this antique wall, The dead have chosen for their coronal, No buds that flaunt of life and flare and burn; They have agreed, To choose a beauty puritan and stern, The universal grass, the homely weed.
— from The Magic House, and Other Poems by Duncan Campbell Scott

Now this was a very noble device, for the mere name of Chancery, and the high repute of the fees therein, and low repute of the lawyers, and the comfortable knowledge that the woolsack itself is the golden fleece, absorbing gold for ever, if the standard be but pure; consideration of these things staved off at once the lords of the manors, and all the little farmers, and even those whom most I feared; videlicet, the parsons.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

And, do you know, I trust it will prove to have been a good providence; inasmuch as it gives us an opportunity to make an effort to rescue these poor dupes from the Mormon net."
— from The Two Elsies A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket by Martha Finley

Their wives, so far from repining at this deprivation, determined, from that moment, not to touch a drop of their favorite beverage until they could have it free from taxes.
— from Stories about General Warren, in relation to the fifth of March massacre, and the battle of Bunker Hill by Rebecca Warren Brown

Barzilla Small, Luther's fond parent, also professed intense dislike for the man now filling his son's position in the bank.
— from Shavings: A Novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

His shirt, none too clean, was open at the throat, the collar hanging limply over an unknotted cravat, displaying fully the muscular neck that rose like a pillar from his massive shoulders.
— from Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini

In 1804 the little fortress (krepost) at the bay of Jakutal was still six hundred leagues distant from the most northern Mexican possessions.)
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives in America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place; and among the ancients there is nothing analogous to this, nothing that can be compared with it; for the slaves of the ancients, the familia , the vernae , were a contented race, and faithfully devoted to their masters' service, and as different from the miserable negroes of the sugar plantations, which are a disgrace to humanity, as their two colors are distinct.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc. by Arthur Schopenhauer

Theirs is the ungrateful lust of the wild beast, That doth forget the mother nor knows the child.
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells