What seems to dawn upon philosophers last of all: that they must no longer allow themselves to be presented with concepts already conceived, nor must they merely purify and polish up those concepts; but they must first make them, create them, themselves, and then present them and get people to accept them.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Software solutions to practical problems do converge, and programmers definitely draw upon prior lines of code.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

But Harding has both knowledge and velocity, and the fall of his torrents is beyond praise; impatient, chafing, substantial, shattering, crystalline, and capricious; full of various form, yet all apparently instantaneous and accidental, nothing conventional, nothing dependent upon parallel lines or radiating curves; all broken up and dashed to pieces over the irregular rock, and yet all in unity of motion.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

If with a disorganized, unsettled people like ours, generally poor in the world’s goods, and with never-ending personal demands on their limited resources, we have been able to build and maintain so many churches, institutions, convents, and schools in so short a time, what may not be expected from the same class, now that they are regularly domiciled, and a portion, at least, of the wealth that ever rewards industry and application is fast becoming theirs?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

By this time General von Manteuffel had been reinforced by two brigades of Landwehr, and the 25th Division, under Prince Louis of Hesse, which had crossed the Moselle, and considerably strengthened his right wing.
— from The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870 by George Hooper

Now those who can truly and honestly say, that they never do use profane language, of any kind, may take their seats."
— from The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

Now we enjoyed the advantage of all our work in the winter, for we had drawn up precise lists of the things to be bought.
— from A Floating Home by Cyril Ionides

Now those who can truly and honestly say that they never do use profane language of any kind may take their seats."
— from The Teacher Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott