A belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation, 20 has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life.
— 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 vows, which are performed at the festival at Periyapālayam, are as follows:— (1) Wearing a garment of margosa ( Melia Azadirachta ) leaves, or wearing an ordinary garment, and
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Let your prayer, my son, be like this:'O Maker of me, go on making me, and let me help thee.
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

You have acquired great influence over vast multitudes of men; you may safely guide or mischievously mislead a large amount of public opinion, and those who, from the vigour and intelligence of your past career, entertained sanguine expectations of your future usefulness as a public man, must feel deep disappointment and sorrow at the very different prospect held out by your recent display.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 3 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

I have contended, in a book on 'The Unity of the New Testament,' that there is a 'Hauptidee' in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke; that they are not biographies of a certain Man called Jesus of Nazareth, whom His disciples supposed to be endued with supernatural powers, or to be actually divine; but that they are the history of the way in which that King, whom the Jewish prophets had been declaring as the invisible Ruler over them, manifested Himself visibly to His subjects, and claimed their obedience.
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

The first three gospels, the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, many suppose to be derived from some earlier documents; the gospel of St. John has more idiosyncrasy and is coloured by theology of a strongly Hellenic type.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The dome rises straight up above the green of Monte Mario, and looks enormous.
— from Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary King Waddington

Perhaps of those who rejoiced over the going of Mr. Masterson, a leading name was that of Bear Creek Johnson.
— from The Sunset Trail by Alfred Henry Lewis

Get on, my man, and look sharp, or I'll tie you up and give you fifty for yourself, as sure as God made little apples.” “Go on, Dawes,” whispered Kirkland again.
— from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

Some day, if I but study hard, The public, vanquished by my pen'll Acclaim me as a Minor Bard, Like Norman Gale or Mrs. Meynell, And listen to my lyre a-rippling Imperial banjo-spasms like Kipling.
— from Perverted Proverbs: A Manual of Immorals for the Many by Harry Graham

So having said, he passed a gold Carolus into the minstrel's hand; for which bounty, with tears flowing from his sightless eye-balls, the grateful old man made a low and respectful obeisance, adding due courtesy.
— from The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 1 of 3 by Matthew Weld Hartstonge

There within our circling seas we may rear a race in which the fine qualities of the Celtic family, fortified by the sterner strength of the North, and disciplined by the Norman genius of Munster may at last have fair play; where, at lowest a pious and gallant race may after long struggles and nameless sufferings possess their own soil and their own souls in peace.
— from The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by George Sigerson