But dogmatism is merely a matter of degree.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

7. Hereupon Ptolemy blamed himself for having given his daughter in marriage to Alexander, and for the league he had made with him to assist him against Demetrius; so he dissolved his relation to him, and took his daughter away from him, and immediately sent to Demetrius, and offered to make a league of mutual assistance and friendship with him, and agreed with him to give him his daughter in marriage, and to restore him to the principality of his fathers.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I found presently it flew up into my head violently; but I fell into a sound sleep, and waked no more till, by the sun, it must necessarily be near three o’clock in the afternoon the next day—nay, to this hour I am partly of opinion that I slept all the next day and night, and till almost three the day after; for otherwise I know not how I should lose a day out of my reckoning in the days of the week, as it appeared some years after I had done; for if I had lost it by crossing and recrossing the line, I should have lost more than one day; but certainly I lost a day in my account, and never knew which way.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Had it been your uncle's doing, I must and would have paid him; but these violent young lovers carry every thing their own way.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The conviction that his passion, though hopeless, was not looked upon with disfavour, only made him the more wretched, for the disappointment is more acute in proportion as the chance is better.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

They have opposed pouring in from without, and absorbing like a sponge; they have attacked drilling in material as into hard and resisting rock.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

And now, too, a voluminous cloud, which we had long watched in the regions of Hesper, floated out thence, all gorgeous in crimson and gold, and settling in peace above us, sank, day by day, lower and lower, until its edges rested upon the tops of the mountains, turning all their dimness into magnificence, and shutting us up, as if forever, within a magic prison-house of grandeur and of glory.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Until I do, I might as well believe that she will walk across the bridge and take possession just as soon as I get the last chair leg polished.
— from The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

Thucydides is the personal historian who puts himself into his story, and determines its meaning and moral according to his own theories and convictions.
— from Nineteenth Century Questions by James Freeman Clarke

Its mean weight = 3608 grains; when doubled it made a pound = 7216 grains, with an ounce = 451 grains.
— from Men and Measures by Edward Nicholson

“If the matter be considered deeply, it may appear that it would, perhaps, in the end make little difference
— from The Criminal by Havelock Ellis

Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 26: Ezekiel by Anonymous

The account of the election of Rector at Edinburgh will doubtless interest many, and the chapter dealing with landladies, their varieties and idiosyncracies, is humorous.
— from Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. by Solomon Maimon

It was only one in a row of spacious houses, the house of a foreign financier, a man who dealt in millions, and who was himself the owner of millions.
— from Beyond These Voices by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon