On Avon’s bank, where flowers eternal blow, If I but ask, if any weed can grow; One tragic sentence if I dare deride Which Betterton’s grave action dignified, Or well-mouthed Booth with emphasis proclaims, (Though but, perhaps, a muster-roll of names)
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Hence if death be the permanent absence of the soul, the way to guard against it is either to prevent the soul from leaving the body, or, if it does depart, to ensure that it shall return.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Through an infinity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The way to enable a student to apprehend the instrumental value of arithmetic is not to lecture him upon the benefit it will be to him in some remote and uncertain future, but to let him discover that success in something he is interested in doing depends upon ability to use number.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The naked passion of self-love of Nations, in its drunken delirium of greed, is dancing to the clash of steel and the howling verses of vengeance.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

tenth dēclīvis, -e , adj. sloping downward dē-dō, -ere, -didī, -ditus , give up, surrender , sē dēdere , surrender one’s self dē-dūcō, -ere, -dūxī, -ductus [ dē , down , + dūcō , lead ], lead down, escort dē-fendō, -ere, -dī, -fēnsus , ward off, repel, defend dē-ferō, -ferre, -tulī, -lātus [ dē , down , + ferō , bring ], bring down; report, announce ( § 426 ) dē-fessus, -a, -um , adj. tired out, weary dē-ficiō, -ere, -fēcī, -fectus [ dē , from , + faciō , make ], fail, be wanting; revolt from dē-fīgō, -ere, -fīxī, -fīxus [ dē , down , + fīgō , fasten ], fasten, fix dē-iciō, -ere, -iēcī, -iectus [ dē , down , + iaciō , hurl ], hurl down; bring down, kill de-inde , adv. (from thence), then, in the next place dēlectō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus , delight dēleō, -ēre, -ēvī, -ētus , blot out, destroy dēlīberō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus , weigh, deliberate, ponder dē-ligō, -ere, -lēgī, -lēctus [ dē , from , + legō , gather ], choose, select Delphicus, -a, -um , adj.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

N. impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity[obs3]; indocility[obs3]; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

From my own observations, coupled with these, I am inclined to the belief that, instead of viewing these facts as isolated and meaningless particulars, we should now fuse them into the one idea expressed by the philosophic Carus, and adopted by Cloquet, that the cremaster is a production of the abdominal muscles, formed mechanically by the testicle, which in its descent dilates, penetrates, and elongates their fibres.] Plate 41--Figure 6 PLATE 41.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Precisely like their Celtic counterparts in general, these Australian spirits are believed to haunt inanimate objects such as stones and trees; or to frequent totem centres, as in Ireland demons (daemons) are believed to frequent certain places known to have been anciently dedicated to the religious rites of the pre-Christian Celts; and, quite after the manner of the Breton dead and of most fairies, they are said to control human affairs and natural phenomena.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

This is a very good remedy, and it is discreetly done, to kill a Vine to cure a man, but the salt of the leaves are held to be better.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

"Dis chile knows whar de pickets is in de day-time," he emphatically declared, "but knows nuffin 'bout 'em arter dark;" and absolutely declined to take the risk of falling within the Confederate lines—an act of prudence and firmness for which he was to be much commended.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

The porphyry statuettes of two emperors embracing, supposed either an emblem of the concord between the East and West, or the intended portraits of the co-reigning Constantine II. and Constans—a curious example of sculpture in its deep decline, and probably imported by Greek monks from Constantinople—project from two of those ancient columns."— Hemans' Mediæval Art.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

“Is it Dan Dolan with the rest?” asked Brother Bart, in dismay.
— from Killykinick by Mary T. (Mary Theresa) Waggaman

Indeed, I dare do no more than hint at these mysteries of feminine emotion.
— from Sandra Belloni — Volume 1 by George Meredith

It is drawn down toward the earth with the same force with the pound of water on either side of it, b or c .
— from Science for the School and Family, Part I. Natural Philosophy by Worthington Hooker

Where is it?" demanded Dave.
— from Dave Porter At Bear Camp; Or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake by Edward Stratemeyer

And, even, when his interest is distinctly defined in his own mind, the discrimination of the quality in the object which has the closest connection with it is a thing which no rules can teach.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

When it is done, dish the meat, strain the gravy into a saucepan, and set in cold water to throw up the fat.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

Dey put it in dar, dey did, en dey put it in de
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

Though I admit that it is devilish difficult to forget one’s liver when one has been cooped up in a destroyer for a week.
— from The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It by Bennet Copplestone