Greatness envy not; for thou mak'st thereby / 40 Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
— 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.

ATHENIAN: Then not from inactivity and carelessness is any God ever negligent; for there is no cowardice in them.
— from Laws by Plato

That is a good enough name for it: Conscience—that independent Sovereign, that insolent absolute Monarch inside of a man who is the man's Master.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

On the road much pleasant discourse passed between Jones and Partridge, on the subject of their last adventure: in which Jones exprest a great compassion for those highwaymen who are, by unavoidable distress, driven, as it were, to such illegal courses, as generally bring them to a shameful death: “I mean,” said he, “those only whose highest guilt extends no farther than to robbery, and who are never guilty of cruelty nor insult to any person, which is a circumstance that, I must say, to the honour of our country, distinguishes the robbers of England from those of all other nations; for murder is, amongst those, almost inseparably incident to robbery.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

This night my friend, so late in battle lost, Stood at my side, a pensive, plaintive ghost: Even now familiar, as in life, he came; Alas!
— from The Iliad by Homer

GEnie ——- General Electric Network for Information Exchange is GE's Consumer Information Service.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

After these three prophets, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, during the same period of the liberation of the people from the Babylonian servitude Esdras also wrote, who is historical rather than prophetical, as is also the book called Esther, which is found to relate, for the praise of God, events not far from those times; unless, perhaps, Esdras is to be understood as prophesying of Christ in that passage where, on a question having arisen among certain young men as to what is the strongest thing, when one had said kings, another wine, the third women, who for the most part rule kings, yet that
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The words [Greek: akolastos] and [Greek: deilos] are not used here in their strict significations to denote confirmed states of vice the [Greek: enkrates] necessarily feels pain, because he must always be thwarting passions which are a real part of his nature, though this pain will grow less and less as he nears the point of [Greek: sophrosyne] or perfected Self-Mastery, which being attained the pain will then, and then only, cease entirely.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

It was with a strange feeling of desolation, mingled with a strong sense of the novelty of my situation, and a joyless kind of curiosity concerning what was yet unknown, that I awoke the next morning; feeling like one whirled away by enchantment, and suddenly dropped from the clouds into a remote and unknown land, widely and completely isolated from all he had ever seen or known before; or like a thistle-seed borne on the wind to some strange nook of uncongenial soil, where it must lie long enough before it can take root and germinate, extracting nourishment from what appears so alien to its nature: if, indeed, it ever can.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

“Who fails in great endeavour, nobly fails,” is their creed.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

The tempter's advice is to get even now for the injury that has been done.
— from The Unknown Wrestler by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

Then there followed a further sharp reprimand to which Grace listened gravely, her calm, gray eyes never for an instant leaving Miss Sheldon's face.
— from Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus by Josephine Chase

I put Reginald in possession of the Garsworth estate not for his own sake, but for mine.
— from The Man with a Secret: A Novel by Fergus Hume

Well coated they would go each night from the tobacco-laden air of the kitchen down the road to the bridge over Marbeck Force.
— from The Marbeck Inn: A Novel by Harold Brighouse

XVII George experienced no fear, no impulse to release Sylvia.
— from The Guarded Heights by Wadsworth Camp

Greater end no fireman could crave.
— from Children of the Tenements by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

But Mrs Constable's gentle and beautiful gray eyes now flashed with a sudden fire, and the colour of amazed anger rose into her cheeks.
— from Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief by L. T. Meade

Bayaderes (bā-a-dērz´), the general European name for the dancing and singing girls of India, some of whom are attached to the service of the Hindu temples, while others travel about and dance at entertainments for hire.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Atrebates to Bedlis Vol. 1 Part 3 by Various

The Factories and Workshops mean the Working-Man; Working-Man has Vote; General Election not far off; must show Working-Man who's his true friend.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891 by Various