Dear are our parents, dear our children, our relatives, and our associates, but all our affections for all these are embraced in our affection for our native land.
— 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.

Again, some of these moralists (as Kant) regard all actions as bad—or not good—which are not done from pure regard for duty or choice of Right as Right: while Hutcheson, who represents the opposite pole of Intuitional Ethics, equally distinguishes the love of Virtue as a separate impulse; but treats it as at once co-ordinate in rank and coincident in its effects with universal Benevolence.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The struggle between systems, together with the struggle between epistemological scruples, is one which involves very special instincts (forms of vitality, of decline, of classes, of races, etc.).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For he being supposed to have all, both legislative and executive power in himself alone, there is no judge to be found, no appeal lies open to any one, who may fairly, and indifferently, and with authority decide, and from whose decision relief and redress may be expected of any injury or inconviency, that may be suffered from the prince, or by his order: so that such a man, however intitled, Czar, or Grand Seignior, or how you please, is as much in the state of nature, with all under his dominion, as he is with the rest of mankind: for where-ever any two men are, who have no standing rule, and common judge to appeal to on earth, for the determination of controversies of right betwixt them, there they are still in the state of* nature, and under all the inconveniencies of it, with only this woful difference to the subject, or rather slave of an absolute prince: that whereas, in the ordinary state of nature, he has a liberty to judge of his right, and according to the best of his power, to maintain it; now, whenever his property is invaded by the will and order of his monarch, he has not only no appeal, as those in society ought to have, but as if he were degraded from the common state of rational creatures, is denied a liberty to judge of, or to defend his right; and so is exposed to all the misery and inconveniencies, that a man can fear from one, who being in the unrestrained state of nature, is yet corrupted with flattery, and armed with power.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Abdul-Mejid was desirous of carrying out reforms, but most of them were not enforced, or caused bloody insurrections where attempts were made to carry them out.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Then, too, there are a great many degrees of closeness or remoteness in human society.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pronouns used as the double or conjunctive object, regularly precede the verb, but they follow the gerund and certain other forms.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

A solemn anathema is pronounced against Nestorius and Eutyches; against all heretics by whom Christ is divided, or confounded, or reduced to a phantom.
— 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

The log hut that we were approaching, and in which the old woman, R——, resided by herself—having quarrelled years ago with her son's wife—was of the smallest dimensions, only containing one room, which served the old dame for kitchen, and bed-room, and all.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Is it not a succession of deeds of cruelty, of rapine, of pillage, of wanton destruction?
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

And be it further enacted , That the 'school-farms' in the parish of Saint Helena, South Carolina, shall be sold, subject to any leases of the same, by the said tax commissioners, at public auction, on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, at not less than ten dollars per acre; and the lots in the city of Port Royal, as laid down by the said tax commissioners, and the lots and houses in the town of Beaufort, which are still held in like manner, shall be sold at public auction; and the proceeds of said sales, after paying expenses of the surveys and sales, shall be invested in United States bonds, the interest of which shall be appropriated, under the direction of the commissioner, to the support of schools, without distinction of color or race, on the islands in the parishes of Saint Helena and Saint Luke.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

Poetry (I must exaggerate to be clear), psychologically considered, is not the expression of ideas or of a view of life; it is their discovery or creation, or rather both discovery and creation in one.
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

That fate depends on conduct in the body, and the only possible definition of a good deed, that is approved by conscience, is one which will benefit the series of germ-cells arising from one individual, that is ourselves and our family, and further which will be of use to others with their own series of germ-cells, and that in proportion to the degree of connection or relationship.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

I have seen demure old cats, of respectable matronly aspect,—cats that ought to have known better,—leave their kittens when only [Pg 9] a day old, and gambol round the room after a cork till tired and giddy. BLACK and WHITE.
— from Cats: Their Points and Characteristics With Curiosities of Cat Life, and a Chapter on Feline Ailments by Gordon Stables

He'll be turned down of course, or referred to the office.
— from The Substitute Millionaire by Hulbert Footner

In this notion there is no denial of community of relation; it is rather the culmination of relation.
— from Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition by John Dewey

There are very great differences in the degree of coarseness of river sand.
— from River and Canal Engineering, the characteristics of open flowing streams, and the principles and methods to be followed in dealing with them. by E. S. (Edward Skelton) Bellasis

Every professional destroyer, or capturer, of rats will pretend that as to poison he has his own particular method—his secret—his discovery.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew