osite passion: And if I see cause to love more, hate more Than ever man loved, ever hated before— And seek in the Valley of Love The nest, or the nook in Hate's Grove Where my soul may surely reach The essence, naught less, of each, The Hate of all Hates, the Love Of all Loves, in the Valley or Grove,— I find them the very warders
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Capable, intelligent, energetic, lieutenants, who are intensely interested, and who exhibit no lack of earnestness or energy; who are imbued with implicit faith and confidence in whatever may be advocated and decided upon, and who direct their best efforts to its accomplishment.
— from How Department Stores Are Carried On by W. B. (Wesley Briggs) Phillips

When growth is resumed in spring, the germinal layer of the epidermis, rather than continuing to add to the edge of the existing scute, forms an [Pg 570] entirely new layer of epidermis.
— from Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler

It is a land having, in its most characteristic regions, [134] a year of but one day and night—the summer a perpetual warm sunlit day filled with the aroma of trees and plants, and the rest of the year a night of darkness and horror; a land which is the extreme northern limit of European civilization, on the outskirts of which the great primitive gods still dwell; and where elves and fairies and mermaids are still regarded, according to the expression of Jonas Lie, as tame domestic animals.
— from The New Spirit Third Edition by Havelock Ellis

Mathematics, chemistry, physical science, geology—all these exist no longer, or else exist in such an elementary form as our ancestors would have been ashamed to acknowledge.
— from The Revolt of Man by Walter Besant

" Accordingly they either invented entirely new legends or else used old legends which had originally presented themselves to the founders of the nation in an appropriately stern and severe form, but softened them by adapting them to the [Pg 194] softening of manners.
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce