This is the test; and our attempt is the work of envy, which is blind, and does not see that repetition is not in this place a fault; for there is no general rule.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

“I never got really acquainted with him until after my little mother died.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us, nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

9.—LOS EXTRANJEROS EN AMÉRICA (to the vocabulary section) Vengan en hora buena aquéllos que penetran al seno de la República por el pórtico siempre abierto del preámbulo constitucional, [1] dispuestos a labrar su propio bienestar, contribuyendo al engrandecimiento común al amparo de leyes cuya generosidad sólo podría compararse a la del surco dilecto, que retribuye sin usuras el sudor de las frentes; vengan en hora buena esos inmigrantes sanos y buenos, que incorporan nuevos glóbulos rojos a las arterias de la República y de cada uno de los cuales podría decirse, parafraseando un concepto ajeno, que es como una letra en el gran abecedario del progreso nacional; vengan en hora buena esos extranjeros como Burmeister, como Jacques, como Berg, como Gould, como Groussac, que han ilustrado el pensamiento de varias generaciones argentinas, y cuyo paso por los bufetes de la pública enseñanza nos permite afirmar que la República diluída en la triunfal policromía de un potente organismo joven, es americana por el rígido concepto de su propia autonomía; española por su tradición y por su lengua; alemana por su ejército; inglesa por la pujanza de sus grandes capitales; francesa por sus tendencias literarias e italiana por el hondo y permanente amor a las cosas altas y las cosas bellas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But what of the abolition of the "working guilds" and "all the corporations," that is to say, the "trade unions" of the period, which was carried out by the infamous Loi Chapelier in 1791, a decree that is now generally recognized as one of the strangest anomalies of the Revolution?
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

This flom Jordan is no great river, but it is plenteous of good fish; and it cometh out of the hill of Lebanon by two wells that be clept Jor and Dan, and of the two wells hath it the name.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Again, 17...P - B 4; 18 R - B 2, P - Q 4; 19 P × P, B × P; 20 Kt × B (best, since if R (B 2) - Q 2, B × Kt give Black the advantage), R × Kt; 21 R × R, Kt × R; and there is no good reason why Black should lose.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

Well, then, said my master, I find I must read it; and yet, added he, after all, I had as well let it alone, for it is no great reputation to myself.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

It is now generally recognized that the older English conception of the "economic man" and the "rational man," motivated by enlightened self-interest, was far removed from the "natural man" impelled by impulse, prejudice, and sentiment, in short, by human nature.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Nietzsche's summing-up of the Founder of Christianity—for of course, as is now generally recognised, it was Paul, and not Christ, who founded the Christian Church—has not yet called forth those bitter attacks from theologians that might have been expected, though one reason for this apparent neglect is no doubt that the portrait is so true, and in these circumstances silence is certainly golden on the part of defenders of the faith, who are otherwise, as a rule, loquacious enough.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

MAN PACKING There is no good reason why every hiker should not be accompanied by A Hiking Dog For if there is anything a dog does love better than its own soul it is to hike with its master, and every normal boy and girl, and every normal man and woman, loves the company of a good dog.
— from The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft by Daniel Carter Beard

The Indians now generally require horses in exchange for their beavers; and as there are but few at Fort Clarke, messengers were despatched to Fort Pièrre to fetch some.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 2 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

It will thus be seen that Fredericksburg, with its quiet ways and want of bustling activity, is a manufacturing center of considerable importance, and lying, as it does, on the line of travel from north to south, there is no good reason, as we have intimated, why it may not be a manufacturing center of much greater importance.
— from The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia by S. J. (Silvanus Jackson) Quinn

Fresh run Salmon are generally infested with a "Sea-louse," which quickly perishes in freshwater; not so, however, with the troublesome worm-like creature, the subject of Browne's experiments; it is known as Lernæa salmonis , and is only found on the gill-covers of spent Kelts; it is not got rid of till the fish returns to the salt water.
— from Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk More Especially on the Birds and Fishes by Browne, Thomas, Sir

The importance of these figures is not generally realized.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

It necessarily gives rise to paradoxes, and there are some very bold ones in the Essays, which would subject an author less established to no very agreeable sort of censura literaria .
— from Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt

I never get real joy riding north.”
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

He must have his money to-morrow; there is no getting round him.—You do not know Cibot; when he is angry he would kill a man.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Although the ruin of character is to be deplored under all circumstances, yet it never gives rise to greater commiseration and regret than when it destroys more than ordinary capabilities for adorning and profiting society.
— from Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department by James Holbrook

I speak not of a fact that happened in antiquity, but one that is necessary and in practice at this very hour; and though a man, by this mensuration, attains to the knowledge of what his farm produces this same year, this is no general rule, as his cultivated land next year may be doubled, or perhaps reduced to one-fourth; and his neighbour, on the other side of the Nile, may in his farm make up the correspondent deficiency, or excess; and the average quantity produced by them both being the same, the degree of the Nilometer will be the same likewise.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce