"Therefore, my excellent friend, it is on no account correct for us to say that the soul is a kind of harmony; for, as it appears, we should neither agree with Homer, that divine poet, nor with ourselves."
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

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— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

There, she designed to wait, till La Vallee should again be her own, whither she hoped her income would some time permit her to return; for Du Pont now taught her to expect, that the estate, of which Montoni had attempted to defraud her, was not irrecoverably lost, and he again congratulated her on her escape from Montoni, who, he had not a doubt, meant to have detained her for life.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Compare all this with advertisements in Toronto daily papers now, from agencies in the town, of "Through Lines" weekly, to California, Vancouver's, China and Japan, connecting with Lines to Australia and New Zealand.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

For one may hope it will be annual and perennial; a 'Feast of Pikes, Fete des Piques,' notablest among the high-tides of the year: in any case ought not a Scenic free Nation to have some permanent National Amphitheatre?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Why should similar bones have been created to form the wing and the leg of a bat, used as they are for such totally different purposes, namely flying and walking?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation: but this is not so; for these have no share in the happiness of it; nor do they live after their own choice; nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse: for then the Tyrrhenians and Carthaginians, and all other nations between whom treaties of commerce subsist, would be citizens of one city; for they have articles to regulate their exports and imports, and engagements for mutual protection, and alliances for mutual defence; but [1280b] yet they have not all the same magistrates established among them, but they are different among the different people; nor does the one take any care, that the morals of the other should be as they ought, or that none of those who have entered into the common agreements should be unjust, or in any degree vicious, only that they do not injure any member of the confederacy.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

qu'on aurait pu l'entendre à une lieue.--Et pourquoi donc, lui dit le juge de paix, ne vous êtes-vous pas garé?»
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

If you don't derive profits, no royalty is due.
— from Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein

Control of the latter, therefore, rests either upon local control of the Isthmus itself, or, indirectly, upon control of its approaches, or upon a distinctly preponderant navy.
— from The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

In the meantime into the racks below were constantly dropping papers neatly folded,—papers that were finished and had each section arranged in its proper place; and to Paul's amazement an automatic machine counted these as they came from the press.
— from Paul and the Printing Press by Sara Ware Bassett

From a dozen points, not the same view but the same kind of view may be obtained, each differing from the other, except in charm and immensity.
— from East of Paris: Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Matilda Betham-Edwards

“Bless my safety razor!” cried Mr. Damon “perhaps Ned is right!”
— from Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; Or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land by Victor Appleton

It is beyond the Power of any Magic to transport us into different Places, not only at the same Time, but even while we are in the same Place.
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

W. Two small distant peaks, N. 1 W. Bluff head, like the N. end of an island, N. 63 E. Extreme of the eastern land, N. 83 E. Between the first and last of these bearings there was a deep bight formed, at the head of which no other land than the two small peaks could be perceived.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders