No power on this earth can keep you down, if you WILL to rise.
— from Supreme Personality: Fun in Living. A Doubt, Fear, and Worry Cure by Delmer Eugene Croft

"I know that matters little to you--" "Oh, but you're farther from fair than ever, Captain Kincaid; you got my word for one thing and have used it for another!"
— from Kincaid's Battery by George Washington Cable

“As if anything less than an earthquake could keep you awake!”
— from The Adventure Girls in the Air by Clair Blank

Only upon terra firma I have left you your good name; But over all the ocean Every creature knows your shame.
— from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

What else could knit You theirs but Sorrow?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

This he did in the following somewhat ungracious terms— “Edward by the grace of God, King of England &c. Know ye
— from Lowestoft in olden times by Francis Davy Longe

I feel as though I couldn’t be bad if I wanted to be, and when he blesses them and says, “May the God of the Everlasting Covenant keep you firm and holy to the end through Jesus Christ our Lord,” everything seems complete.
— from Village Life in America 1852-1872, Including the Period of the American Civil War As Told in the Diary of a School-Girl by Caroline Cowles Richards

If you giggle, as every child knows, you spoil the game.
— from Greenwich Village by Anna Alice Chapin