Every solution to a doubt, in so far as it is not a new error, every practical achievement not neutralised by a second maladjustment consequent upon it, every consolation not the seed of another greater sorrow, may be gathered together and built into this edifice.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

(for character in this sense is not a natural endowment; it is formed or produced).
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

We make small deviations, to see the remarkable towns, villas, and curiosities on each side of our route; so that we advance by slow steps towards the borders of Monmouthshire: but in the midst of these irregular motions, there is no abberration nor eccentricity in that affection with which I am, dear Wat, Yours always, J. MELFORD Sept. 28.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The Ning Yeong Company is next, and numbers eighteen thousand members on the coast.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Persecution is not a new experience to the Jew, but intensive scrutiny of his nature and super-nationality is.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Armenia is now a net energy exporter, although it does not have sufficient generating capacity to replace Metsamor, which is under international pressure to close.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Still, in Berlin, it seems that brothels, if not a necessary evil, can not be momentarily abolished, but such steps must be devised as will gradually remove the evil, and make the disgrace generally noticeable.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

There results a constant migration to the city, bringing about serious social and economic problems; but from the educational point of view the serious part of it is the fact that the school training may unfit the child to live in its normal and natural environment.
— from Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904 by New York State College of Agriculture

Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God' (1 Cor 6:8-10; 2 Tim 3:1-5).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Do you dispense with a conscience entirely?" "Well, you see, Miss Balfour, if I nursed a New England conscience I could stand up to the attacks of the Consolidated about as long as a dove to a hawk.
— from Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine

I am injuring nothing and nobody, except your father’s vanity, and I have no doubt he will find some explanation of my leaving him which will quite satisfy him.
— from Peter by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Ideas of Christianity, 2:119— “ It is just the best, purest, noblest human souls, who are least satisfied with themselves and their own spiritual attainments; and the reason is that the human is not a nature essentially different from the divine, but
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

She persuaded her loving spouse to rent one of its cottages; and covering some old sofas and chairs with new chintz, furnished it nicely and neatly enough to have satisfied the most fastidious.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXIV, No. 5, May 1849 by Various