The whole art is really to live all the DAYS of our life; and not with anxious care disturb the sweetest hour that life affords—which is the present.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The day is warm enough to call out all the birds; flocks of wild geese clang overhead, and companies of them, ranks on ranks, stand on the low sand-dunes; there are pelicans also, motionless in the shallow water near the shore, meditating like a derweesh on one leg, and not caring that the thermometer does mark 740.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

If this is accompanied by weakness of the interni, absolute divergence occurs on looking at near objects, sometimes for distance also and certainly if we suppress binocular fusion by covering one eye or render it difficult by colouring one visual field with a red glass.
— from Clinical Investigations on Squint by C. Schweigger

We might go there every day of our lives, and never again be the only outsiders in the room, with the billiard-marking Johnnie practically out of ear-shot at one and the same time.
— from Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

On this day, even on it manna in the morning very early was gathered by the disciples of our Lord, as newly springing out of the ground.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

The blasphemous title Theotokos, Mother of God, since so unhappily familiar, [505] had been applied to the Virgin Mary, at first in protest against the Arian heresy which denied the divinity of Our Lord, and not in exaltation of his virgin mother.
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

Sometimes there does arise from among their ranks a man of courage, a man endowed with an adventurous nature or fired by ambition, who leads the movement for change, in the hope of either establishing a dynasty, or otherwise leaving a name in history; and sometimes one comes across a wealthy man who, out of regard for principle, and from conviction, is a patriot, and joins the patriotic party deliberately, and risks his possessions and position; but such instances are always few and far between in all countries.
— from Young India An interpretation and a history of the nationalist movement from within by Lala Lajpat Rai

The whole art is, really, to live all the days of our life; and not, with anxious care, disturb the sweetest hour that life affords—which is, the present!
— from The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters by Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount

He has no literary backing of the colleges, or of degrees, or of learned associates; nay, not being so high placed, or so well placed, but that his townsmen of most respectability shook their heads at mention of him.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne by Donald Grant Mitchell