For it belongeth to man meekly to accuse himself, and it belongeth to the proper Goodness of our Lord God courteously to excuse man.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The moment I saw her I took her hand and kissed it, and the renegade and my two comrades did the same; and the rest, who knew nothing of the circumstances, did as they saw us do, for it only seemed as if we were returning thanks to her, and recognising her as the giver of our liberty.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They should be taught that the great object of life is to develop a superb personality, a noble manhood and womanhood.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

If, therefore, she that had an issue of blood might commendably touch the garment of our Lord, why may not she, who has her courses, lawfully enter into the church of God?
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Besides the hospitals, I also go occasionally on long tours through the camps, talking with the men, &c. Sometimes at night among the groups around the fires, in their shebang enclosures of bushes.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

“To meet this difficulty and get out of leading-strings, I returned home at the age of twenty-five, and mortgaged part of my property for four hundred crowns.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

[Pg 174] be in individual tastes, there would at least be, as a general rule, complete unity and unanimity as to the great objects of life.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Towards the house the chestnut-trees we have before mentioned rose high above the wall, without in any way affecting the growth of other luxuriant shrubs and flowers that eagerly dressed forward to fill up the vacant spaces, as though asserting their right to enjoy the boon of light and air.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

"Well, you see, father, so many other chaps have taken advantage of the lull to go off on leave that if I asked to be detached now—well, it wouldn't do me much good with my chief," he said cunningly, guessing that if he appeared to yield his father might postpone action.
— from The Marne: A Tale of the War by Edith Wharton

A moderate style of housekeeping, small, compact, and simple domestic establishments, must necessarily be the general order of life in America.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Not of Hunyadi Janos, not of Hunyadi John—for the genius of our language compels us to put a man’s Christian name after his other; perhaps you have heard of the name of Corvinus?
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow

The reason why he’s got to be so popular is because he is a helper—he cracks a few jokes and the M.C.’s like to talk to him because he don’t get out of line when they talk to him, and he is usually called on during the spinning of the roulette wheel, or something like that, and if he won a bottle of champagne or something like that, it was a big thing.
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

“Upon recollecting this story, I have frequently wondered that this useful instrument should have been so long discontinued, especially since we find that this good office of Licinius has preserved his memory for many hundred years, which, methinks, should have encouraged some one to revive it, if not for the public good, yet for his own credit.
— from Talkers: With Illustrations by John Bate

From every pore oozed great globules of oily liquid, far thicker than normal perspiration.
— from Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison

Wherever [p. 315] pleasure is the great object of life, the interest of others will be held in low esteem.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

That which is given out of loyalty and affection comes to be taken as a due.
— from Irish Books and Irish People by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

"Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ."
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Philippians by Robert Rainy

It seems to me that we have abundant evidence of great oscillations of level in our continents; but not of such vast changes in their position and extension, as to have united them within the recent period to each other and to the several intervening oceanic islands.
— from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Charles Darwin