The ink of the scholar and the blood of the martyr are of equal value in the eye of heaven.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Such aspiration was especially voiced in the earnest songs of Phyllis, in the martyrdom of Attucks, the fighting of Salem and Poor, the intellectual accomplishments of Banneker and Derham, and the political demands of the Cuffes.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

It was really admirable how he emerged victor in the end; men of riper powers and experience might have come through the ordeal with less success.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

These openings to dispute, and the general laxity of their governments coming in contact with our regular system, present 147 dangerous handles for ambition: and who so blind as not to know that ambition to be distinguished must influence every viceregent in the East?
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The saphenous vein, previously to entering the saphenous opening, receives the epigastric vein, i , the external circumflex ilii vein, h , and another venous branch, d , coming from the fore part of the thigh.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The Persians repeatedly charged with fury; they were repeatedly repulsed with firmness; and the action at Maronga, which almost deserved the name of a battle, was marked by a considerable loss of satraps and elephants, perhaps of equal value in the eyes of their monarch.
— 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

Ita attenuatus fuit jejunio et vigiliis, in tantum exeso corpora ut ossibus vix haerebat, undo nocte infantum vagitus, balatus pecorum, mugitus boum, voces et ludibria daemonum, &c. 6459 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Every value is the estimation of one thing compared with another; it is thus a conception of comparison, and consequently relative; and this relativity is precisely that which forms the essence of the idea.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

I do not for a moment deny that this witness of the Spirit is exceedingly various in the extent to which the sons of God possess it.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

Mrs. Edwards had shot him through the head with a revolver she had carried in her shoppingbag to exact vengeance in the event of a miscarriage of justice.
— from Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine

Right is, ever victorious in the end, and though we have infinitely greater material resources than our foes, we should still triumph were we reduced to the last ounce, because of the inherent nobility of our cause.”
— from The Burning Spear: Being the Experiences of Mr. John Lavender in the Time of War by John Galsworthy

No class of anecdote can be more enduringly valuable in the eyes of the bibliophile than those with which the work under consideration is so unstintingly enriched, and I may not be blamed for exemplifying and justifying by some typical specimens my estimate of Heber’s scholarship and energy.
— from The Confessions of a Collector by William Carew Hazlitt

They were both enthusiastic in the cause of the Stuarts, equally vehement in their expressions of contempt for the Dutch king, equally anxious for the coming of him whom they regarded as their lawful monarch.
— from A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The same canal intersects Newark earthworks; and there, within another elliptic vallum, is the Eagle Mound, measuring 155 feet in length of body, and 200 feet between the tips of the wings.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

Some of the furred animals even ventured into the enceinte, and they were not driven away.
— from The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude by Jules Verne

As no State can throw a defense over the crime of treason, the power of pardon is exclusively vested in the executive government of the United States.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

He may go because his parents go, because his master goes, because his friends go, because he has been trained to go, because society expects him to go,—for a hundred reasons all equally vain in the eyes of Him who searcheth the heart and trieth the reins of the children of men; but no man is a hypocrite where his pleasures are concerned.
— from The Night Side of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie