and, but for the digression, and monopoly of space, we might trace it much further, and show that Confucius, like Christ, had twelve chosen disciples; that he was descended from a royal house of princes, as Christ from the royal house of David; that he, in like manner, retired for a long period from the noise and bustle of society into religious contemplative seclusion; that he inculcated the same Golden Rule of doing to others as we desire them to act toward us, and other moral maxims equal in importance to anything that can be found in the Christian Scriptures, etc.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

1078 The flowers are sweet, their colours fresh and trim, But true sweet beauty liv’d and died with him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Now, if one man differed from another as much, as we believe, the gods and heroes differ from men: in the first place, being far their superiors in body; and, secondly, in the soul: so that the superiority of the governors over the governed might be evident beyond a doubt, it is certain that it would be better for the one always to govern, the other always to be governed: but, as this is not easy to obtain, and kings are not so superior to those they govern as Scylax informs us they are in India, it is evident that for many reasons it is necessary that all in their turns should both govern and be governed: for it is just that those who are equal should have everything alike; and it is difficult for a state to continue which is founded in injustice; for all those in the country who are desirous of innovation will apply themselves to those who are under the government of the rest, and such will be their numbers in the state, that it will be impossible for the magistrates to get the better of them.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

E'en his face begetteth laughter, And he speaks truth free from slaughter; He's the grace of every feast, And sometimes the chiefest guest; Hath his trencher and his stool, When wit waits upon the fool: O, who would not be He, he, he?
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

And she had the wonderful patience to wait until eleven o'clock in order to see what would happen, and as she naturally heard nothing, she was suddenly either seized with a wild fit of rage at having been deceived and imposed upon by appearances, or else overcome by that fear which some frightened creature feels at some terrible mystery, and by the furious impatience of a passionate individual who meets with some obstacle; she took up the tongs from the fireplace and struck the clock so violently that she broke it to pieces in a moment.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

If there be any reason for a subdivision those charges must stand by themselves, and might be termed the honourable ordinaries, but I can see no reason for treating the chief, the quarter, the canton, gyron, flanche, label, orle, tressure, fret, inescutcheon, chaplet, bordure, lozenge, fusil, mascle, rustre, roundel, billet, label, shakefork, and pairle, as other than ordinary charges.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The moment he said this the governor started to his feet, and seizing the chair he had been sitting on exclaimed, "By all that's good, you ill-bred, boorish Don Bumpkin, if you don't get out of this at once and hide yourself from my sight, I'll lay your head open with this chair.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It does so by presenting to us, with our fellows as samples, the comedy of the innumerable stupidities of human life.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Strong is the changeless bond that binds The friendly faith of noble minds, In woe, in danger, firm and sure Their constancy and love endure.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The instant Tom saw this, he bent forward and shook the Californian's shoulder so vigorously that he started up, and demanded in a gruff voice what was the matter.
— from Brave Tom; Or, The Battle That Won by Edward Sylvester Ellis

I gambled and drank and got drunk, and fought for a word, for nothing at all; and I spent in one day all I'd earn in a week; but she forgave my foolishness, and she took care of my room, and my linen—and all without a trace of selfishness, for sometimes she had to give me money for my dinner, although she had none too much for herself; she was a marchande des quatre saisons , and didn't always earn in a week as much as I'd spend in one evening with Jean Ficelle and other tipplers."
— from Sans-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Paul de Kock

Well he knows A victory on the sea means England lost, So many traitor hearts will league with France And sell their country for one castle more.
— from Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas by Olive Tilford Dargan

I have been up and well ever since,—a marvel to my friends and family, and sometimes they can hardly believe it is I; and feeling so grateful, I must tell you of [pg 410] it.
— from Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy

Up and down the yards from dusk till dawn, to the accompaniment of the wheezing, grunting, coughing, foreshortened apology for a shunter, the clash of brake-beams, the bump and rattle, staccato, diminuendo, as a line of box-cars grumbled into motion, didn’t take on any roseate hues from the angle Gilleen looked at it; nor did an occasional ten-wheeler, out or in, sailing grandly past him with impudent airs help any, either.
— from On the Iron at Big Cloud by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

And if in that quest he fails, as many have failed before him, he knows that in the search for truth failures are sometimes the condition of victory, and the true conquerors often those whom the world calls the vanquished.
— from India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Then the clatter of heavy china dishes on the wooden mess tables, the noise of knife and fork and spoon, the clatter of voices filled the air.
— from The Marines Have Landed by Giles Bishop

Here we forget a space The crawling sins of man that sting and gloat, The pain and fear that haggers every face, But vaguely and remote The strident trumpet and the clamorous voices sound— Grief doth forget to curse her Gods or pray, While pagan follies squander all around Their brief gay hours in holiday; For all prayers die when laughter is on the lips.—
— from Poems by Iris Tree

But all these States not adding five hundred men to Washington's army, Sir Henry Clinton having received a reinforcement of three thousand Germans, and intelligence having been received that Count de Grasse, with a French fleet of twenty-eight ships and seven thousand troops (besides seamen), had sailed for the Chesapeake, Washington and Count de Rochambeau changed their plan of operations and determined to proceed to Virginia, and, in combination with the French fleet and soldiers, to capture the army under the command of Earl Cornwallis in Virginia.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson