The aim of all is but to nurse the life With honour, wealth, and ease, in waning age; And in this aim there is such thwarting strife, That one for all, or all for one we gage; As life for honour in fell battles' rage; Honour for wealth; and oft that wealth doth cost The death of all, and all together lost.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Pop, pop," echoed far and wide in the distance, and whole flocks of wild geese rose up from the rushes.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

But you must know that I was left a rich man by my father, of whose good, when he was dead, I bestowed the most part in alms, and after, to sustain my life and that I might be able to succour Christ's poor, I have done my little 21 traffickings, and in these I have desired to gain; but still with God's poor have I shared that which I gained, converting my own half to my occasion and giving them the other, and in this so well hath my Creator prospered me that my affairs have still gone from good to better.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

When feeding upon such thoughts the 'wing of the soul' is renewed and gains strength; she is raised above 'the manikins of earth' and their opinions, waiting in wonder to know, and working with reverence to find out what God in this or in another life may reveal to her.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

Dinyusi (dinyusa) pagsag-úlu ang liksiyun, Memorize the lesson earnestly. maki- a God-loving, fond of worshipping God.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
— 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.

The senate, too, ought to hand the matter thus referred to them over to the commons, and suffer every man to have what the fortune of war gave to him.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Of every man For one, will God (and be just) vengeance take?
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

We behold a face of waters gathered together in the fields of the sea; and the dry land both void, and formed so as to be visible and harmonized, yea and the matter of herbs and trees.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I rounded a corner from shadow into sun, and below me lay a tiny creek, a churn of foam round its rocks, the blue water running green and sandy in the shallows, and a flock of wheeling gulls to possess it; before me rose the great crag of the Castle Rock, each plane and angle of its twisted slate pile cut sharply in light and shadow, and against this sullen grey background a newly flowered gorse bush blazed in the sunlight.
— from Lynton and Lynmouth: A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland by John Presland

He carried a fish called ampahan in a bamboo tube full of water, going around by a secret way, so as not to be seen.
— from Philippine Folk-Tales by Laura Estelle Watson Benedict

Solemn flights of wild geese, noisy streams of barnacles, curlew, duck, and widgeon wheeled over the harbour, and stimulated the sporting propensities of the seamen who kept up a constant {204} fusillade from the decks.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

On the low grounds they found fields of wheat growing wild, and on the rising grounds vines.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

He instanced their having no abiding attachment for any one particular toy, however expensive or attractively constructed, always casting away one thing to handle another, the various forms of which gave exercise to different muscles, and imparted new sensations of pleasure.
— from The Emigrant's Lost Son; or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous

What is there about the tang of wood-smoke in a lonesome place that fills one with glories that seem half memory and half dream?
— from The River and I by John G. Neihardt

108 When the struggle of death was over, Indur was equally surprised and pleased on finding himself soaring high in the air, as one of a flight of wild geese, in their annual migration to breed in the arctic regions.
— from Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened by John Aikin

Generally it is fair ones with golden locks that take them out of prison, but at my age a great-aunt is better.
— from Hildegarde's Home by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The old order passeth, and we know that the new order must come soon if it is to work any salvation for our wild game and our life in the open in pursuit of it.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

No one knew who the dead stranger was, they could not even form a conjecture; the fragments of wreckage gave no clue to the matter.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen