Little in mind, howe'er our bodies run!—/ We're all in sects: in sects that hate each other, / And deem it love of God to hate one's brother.
— 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 person who is about to die is laid on the floor of the middle room, for it is inauspicious to die on a cot.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

But whether any part of any determinate quantity be a fourth, or a fifth, or a sixth, or a moiety of the whole; or whether it be of equal length with any other part, or double its length, or but one half, is a matter merely indifferent to the mind; it stands neuter in the question: and it is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of their most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiassed to examine the point.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Their many-sidedness is really amazing, and goodness knows what it may develop into later on, and what the future has in store for us.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So Balin took the sword by the girdle and hilt, and drew it lightly out, and looking on its workmanship and brightness, it pleased him greatly.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

In their report for 1904, the Commission deal with the general state of public order in the same roseate manner which, as we have seen, had made its first appearance during the political exigencies of 1900 in the language about “the great majority of the people” being “entirely willing” to benevolent alien domination in lieu of independence.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

No thing can separate us from the love of Christ; no thing, yea no angel, or devil, principality, or power; no thing, but only ourselves, only our own proud and wayward will and determination to the Devil’s voice in our hearts, and not the voice of Christ, the Word of Life, who is nigh us, in our hearts, even in our darkest moments, loving us still, pitying us, ready, able and willing to help all who cast themselves on Him, and raise us, there and then, the very moment we cry to Him and renounce the Devil and our own foolish will, out of self-will into God’s will, out of darkness into light, out of hatred into love, out of despair into hope, out of doubt into faith, out of tempest into peace, out of the death of sin into the life of righteousness, the life of love and charity, which abideth for ever.
— from Sermons for the Times by Charles Kingsley

but if we may judge from the processions of 1755 and 1757, both of which have been described by eye-witnesses, a standing show was a car decked with foliage and branches to imitate a wood, and carrying a number of men dressed in leaves or in green scaly skins, who squirted water on the people from pewter syringes.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer

Accordingly he ordered that Westminster scholars at Trinity who had taken the bachelor’s degree should, unless deficient in learning or good conduct, be promoted to fellowships in preference to other candidates.
— from Cambridge Papers by W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse) Ball

] “Tu, dea, rerum naturam sola gubernas, Nec sine to quicquam dias in luminis oras Exoritur, neque fit laetum, nec amabile quidquam.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Error is lack of guidance; darkness is absence of light; ignorance is lack of knowledge; falsehood is lack of truthfulness; blindness is lack of sight; and deafness is lack of hearing.
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

I shot, I drew, I looked on nature only; my days were happy beyond human conception, and beyond this I really cared not.”
— from Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5 November 1897 by Various

The windows were thick in dust, it lay on tables and chairs and on the two typewriters standing unused in a corner of the room.
— from To Love by Margaret Peterson

An empty cage that had just deposited its load of copper conglomerate was again ready to descend into the black depths, and, hurrying Peveril forward, Mark Trefethen, with half a dozen other miners, entered it.
— from The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Kirk Munroe

Many of the oaks have held a wealth of withered foliage all the winter but now the leaves fly almost as fast as they did in late October, and make a dry, rustling carpet up to your shoe tops.
— from Some Winter Days in Iowa by Frederick John Lazell

The whole adapted to the capacities of children, and divided into lessons of one, two, three and four syllables.
— from Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey