If my deity is not great enough, I will not assuredly falter to seek succour where it may be; if the powers of heaven are inflexible, I will stir up Acheron.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

This synthesis is pure when the diversity is not given empirically but a priori (as that in space and time).
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Did it not give evidence of high cultivation?”
— from William Nelson: A Memoir by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

There are times when the most gracious doctrine is not gracious enough to represent and embody the Spirit of Christ to us.
— from A Day at a Time, and Other Talks on Life and Religion by Archibald Alexander

It is partly because it does not do this that the method by details is not generally effective.
— from The Writing of the Short Story by Lewis Worthington Smith

If the danger is not great enough in your thought—if the happiness of that hope of immortality be not sufficiently impressive to you—how can I make it seem different?
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

In the hind-limb, where they reach the foot, the counterparts of the tendons, arteries, veins, and nerves differ in no great essential from their fellows in the fore.
— from Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks

Did I not give everything away to them, Nullius?
— from Anathema: A Tragedy in Seven Scenes by Leonid Andreyev

Why should the "directive intelligence" not get earlier to work, and instead of waiting until a large number of specimens have been produced and then looking them over with a view to "directing" the preservation of the better specimens, why should it not set to work at the beginning and see that only the {158} desirable ones make their appearance?
— from A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen

Cavalry work here against far superior forces of infantry, like we had the other day, is not good enough.
— from The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various