Grief hath not so blunted my perceptions in this matter that I should complain because impious wretches contrive their villainies against the virtuous, but at their achievement of their hopes I do exceedingly marvel.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

To the honour, then, of the English be it said that they are the first people who have, in downright earnest, extended the protecting arm of the law to animals: in England the miscreant, that commits an outrage on beasts, has to pay for it, equally whether they are his own or not.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The holiday tour in which Charles II. and James, Duke of York, took so much interest appears to have had its desired effect in restoring the Diarist to health.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, — Past the houses, past the headlands, Into deep eternity!
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

Knowing what this poor fallen man had once been, her whole soul was moved by the shuddering terror with which he had appealed to her—the outcast woman—for support against his instinctively discovered enemy.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

so because he was himself in danger every day from his friendship with him, and the observance he paid him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

On the one hand His humanity is distinctly emphasized.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

It is probable that the no less important motive of a baffled devil, happy to make his return to hell, is due either directly or indirectly to Machiavelli’s influence.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

The shanty sartinly looked open enough the last time I fetched the trail past the clearin', and though with the help of the moss and the clay in the bank she might make it comfortable, yit, ef the vagabond that be her husband has forgot his own, and desarted them, as Wild Bill said he had, I doubt ef there be victuals enough in the shanty to keep them from starvin'.
— from How John Norton the Trapper Kept His Christmas by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray

Adam’s appeal had its due effect.
— from Won from the Waves by William Henry Giles Kingston

If that future state does not prove that earthly discipline has had its designed effect, the sorrows of this life show that God can bear to see us suffer, even when he foresees that no good will result to the sufferer.
— from Catharine by Nehemiah Adams

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor , his autobiographical letters to Thomas Poole, 3-18; ancestry and parentage, 4-7; birth, 6, 9 and note; his brothers and sister, 7-9; christened, 9; infancy and childhood, 9-12; learns to read, 10; early taste in books, 11 and note, 12; his dreaminess and indisposition to bodily activity in childhood, 12; boyhood, 12-21; has a dangerous fever, 12-13; quarrels with his brother Frank, runs away, and is found and brought back, 13-15; his imagination developed early by the reading of fairy tales, 16; a Christ’s Hospital Presentation procured for him by Judge Buller, 18; visits his maternal uncle, Mr. John Bowdon, in London, 18, 19; becomes a Blue-Coat boy, 19; his life at Christ’s Hospital, 20-22; enters Jesus College, Cambridge, 22, 23; becomes acquainted with the Evans family, 23 and note, 24; writes a Greek Ode, for which he obtains the Browne gold medal for 1792, 43 and note; is matriculated as pensioner, 44 and note; his examination for the Craven Scholarship, 45 and note, 46; his temperament, 47; takes violin lessons, 49; enlists in the army, 57 and note; nurses a comrade who is ill of smallpox in the Henley workhouse, 58 and note; his enlistment disclosed to his family, 57 n., 58, 59; remorse, 59-61, 64, 65; arrangements resulting in his discharge, 61-70; his religious beliefs at twenty-one, 68, 69; returns to the university and is punished, 70, 71; drops his gay acquaintances and settles down to hard work, 71; makes a tour of North Wales with Mr. J. Hucks, 72-81; falls in love with Miss Sarah Fricker, 81; proposes to go to America with a colony of pantisocrats, 81, 88-91, 101-103; his interest in Miss Fricker cools and his old love for Mary Evans revives, 89; his indolence, 103, 104; on his own poetry, 112; considers going to Wales with Southey and others to found a colony of pantisocrats, 121, 122; his love for Mary Evans proves hopeless, 122-126; in lodgings in Bristol after having left Cambridge without taking his degree, 133-135; marries Miss Sarah Fricker and spends the honeymoon in a cottage at Clevedon, 136; breaks with Southey, 136-151; happiness in early married life, 139; his tour to procure subscribers for the Watchman , 151 and note, 152-154; poverty, 154, 155; receives a communication from Mr. Thomas Poole that seven or eight friends have undertaken to subscribe a certain sum to be paid annually to him as the author of the monody on Chatterton, 158 n.; discontinues the Watchman , 158; takes Charles Lloyd into his home, 168-170; birth of his first child, David Hartley, 169; considers starting a day school at Derby, 170 and note; has a severe attack of neuralgia for which he takes laudanum, 173-176; [Pg 784] early use of opium and beginning of the habit, 173 n., 174 n.; selects twenty-eight sonnets by himself, Southey, Lloyd, Lamb, and others and has them privately printed, to be bound up with Bowles’s sonnets, 177, 206 and note; his description of himself in 1796, 180, 181; his personal appearance as described by another, 180 n., 181 n.; anxious to take a cottage at Nether Stowey and support himself by gardening, 184-194; makes arrangements to carry out this plan, 209; his partial reconciliation with Southey, 210, 211; in the cottage at Nether Stowey, 213; his engagement as tutor to the children of Mrs. Evans of Darley Hall breaks down, 215 n.; his visit at Mrs. Evans’s house, 216; daily life at Nether Stowey, 219, 220; visits Wordsworth at Racedown, 220 and note, 221; secures a house (Alfoxden) for Wordsworth near Stowey, 224; visits him there, 227; finishes his tragedy, Osorio , 231; suspected of conspiracy with Wordsworth and Thelwall against the government, 232 n.; accepts an annuity of £150 for life from Josiah and Thomas Wedgwood, 234 and note, 235 and note; declines an offer of the Unitarian pastorate at Shrewsbury, 235 and note, 236; writes Joseph Cottle in regard to a third edition of his poems, 239; rupture with Lloyd, 238, 245 n., 246; first recourse to opium to relieve distress of mind, 245 n.; birth of a second child, Berkeley, 247; temporary estrangement from Lamb caused by Lloyd, 249-253; goes to Germany with William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, and John Chester, for the purpose of study and observation, 258-262; life en pension with Chester in the family of a German pastor at Ratzeburg, after parting from the Wordsworths at Hamburg, 262-278; learning the German language, 262, 263, 267, 268; writes a poem in German, 263; proposes to proceed to Göttingen, 268-270; proposes to write a life of Lessing, 270; travels by coach from Ratzeburg to Göttingen, passing through Hanover, 278-280; enters the University, 281; receives word of the death of his little son, Berkeley, 282-287; learns the Gothic and Theotuscan languages, 298; reconciliation with Southey, after the return from Germany, 303, 304; with his wife and child he visits the Southeys at Exeter, 305 and note; accompanies Southey on a walking-tour in Dartmoor, 305 and note; makes a tour of the Lake Country, 312 n., 313; in London, writing for the Morning Post , 315-332; life at Greta Hall, near Keswick, 335-444; proposes to write an essay on the elements of poetry, 338, 347; proposes to study chemistry with William Calvert as a fellow-student, 345-347; proposes to write a book on the originality and merits of Locke, Hobbes, and Hume, 349, 350; spends a week at Scarborough, riding and bathing for his health, 361-363; divides the winter of 1801-1802 between London and Nether Stowey, 365-368; domestic unhappiness, 366; writes the Ode to Dejection , addressing it to Wordsworth, 378-384; discouraged about his poetic faculty, 388; a separation from his wife considered and harmony restored, 389, 390; makes a walking-tour of the Lake Country, 393 and note, 394; makes a tour of South Wales with Thomas and Sarah Wedgwood, 410-414; his regimen at this time, 412, 413, 416, 417; birth of his daughter Sara, 416; with Charles and Mary Lamb in London, 421, 422; takes Mary Lamb to the private madhouse at Hugsden, 422; his tour in Scotland, 431-441; love for and delight in his children, 443; visits Wordsworth at Grasmere and is taken ill there, 447 , 448 ; his rapid recovery, 451 ; plans and preparations for going abroad, 447-469 ; his mental attitude towards his wife, 468 ; voyage to Malta, 469-481 ; dislike of his own first name, 470 , 471 ;
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive.
— from Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain

What have I done?" exclaimed he.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The temptation of the half-open door had its due effect on this prudent man; but it failed to make him forget that his feet were wet.
— from Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins

Joshua here is doing exactly what Jesus Christ often did.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

For since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still; therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.” Jer.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

It is not much above three feet and a half in diameter, even at the base, and a couple of men with axes would bring it down in an hour, while there is no saying how long they will be with these fires of theirs.
— from Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty