But now you depart, if you do depart, unjustly treated, not by us, the laws, but by men; but should you escape, having thus disgracefully returned injury for injury, and evil for evil, having violated your own compacts and conventions which you made with us, and having done evil to those to whom you least of all should have done it—namely, yourself, your friends, your country, and us—both we shall be indignant with you as long as you live, and there our brothers, the laws in Hades, will not receive you favorably knowing that you attempted, so far as you were able, to destroy us.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

But his exultation far exceeded his fear.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A millionaire, dishonoured and excluded from every house in Paris, can go quite securely to Rome; there he will be estimated just according to the value of his dollars.
— from On Love by Stendhal

The legions of the eastern frontier embraced his cause; the opulent but unarmed provinces, from the frontiers of Aethiopia 23 to the Hadriatic, cheerfully submitted to his power; and the kings beyond the Tigris and the Euphrates congratulated his election, and offered him their homage and services.
— 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

And hence the allegory of Pentheus and Orpheus being torn to pieces is evident; for every headstrong passion is extremely bitter, severe, inveterate, and revengeful upon all curious inquiry, wholesome admonition, free counsel, and persuasion.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

It cannot even be said to be the outcome of the whole of evolution, for evolution has been accomplished on several divergent lines, and while the human species is at the end of one of them, other lines have been followed with other species at their end.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

If I possessed an expedient for extricating her from a dilemma, without compromising my own neck to the extent of a single running knot, what would you say to it?
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done: Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee; Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art, They draw but what they see, know not the heart.
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

In the North, as I have already remarked, a twofold migration ensues upon the abolition of slavery, or even precedes that event when circumstances have rendered it probable; the slaves quit the country to be transported southwards; and the whites of the Northern States, as well as the emigrants from Europe, hasten to fill up their place.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I only hope we shall be able to keep this great historic bulwark of our happiness for many years to come; but I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching—that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

I saw the man and myself as accomplices, on an equal footing, each having given quarter to the other.
— from Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The Seneca orator now consented to dine with him at Buffalo, and, after the repast, the enthusiastic Frenchman exclaimed: "He is a remarkable man.
— from Famous Indian Chiefs Their Battles, Treaties, Sieges, and Struggles with the Whites for the Possession of America by Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) Johnston

Pardon me, ladies, if I have given a moment’s pain to anyone here: but I appeal to every medical man in the room whether I have not spoken the truth; and having such an opportunity as this, I felt that I must speak for the sake of children, and of women likewise, or else for ever hereafter hold my peace.
— from Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley

He was of the company of Odilon Redon, of whom he had never heard, in his feeling for the almost occult presence emanating from everything he encountered everywhere, and his simple letters to his friends hold touches of the same beauty his drawings and paintings and carvings on pebbles contain.
— from Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

I have gathered something in each corner; I have gleaned an ear from every harvest.”
— from Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

When he was not writing, he was addressing wrappers or making out the weekly bills for the newsagents; and every Friday evening he stood by the counter, folding up the papers as they came to him, and handing them to grubby little children who were sent by the newsagents, or sold the papers for themselves in the streets.
— from Mightier than the Sword by Alphonse Courlander

There are in the Church today (1910) over forty-one thousand seven hundred men holding the Melchizedek Priesthood, and every faithful elder has access to the temples.
— from Salvation Universal by Joseph Fielding Smith

At Easter : Of men’s wives, children, and apprentices, for their communion at Easter, for every head, 2 d. Tithes of Servants’ Wages : The tenth part and for their housel at Easter, 1 d. At all principal feasts divers offer, some wax, some money, which comes to the parson’s use.
— from Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England by Edward Lewes Cutts

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— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers