If our "ego" is the only form of Being, according to which we make and understand all Being: very good!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

N OT that in colour it was like thy haire, For Armelets of that thou maist let me weare: Nor that thy hand it oft embrac'd and kist, For so it had that good, which oft I mist: 5 Nor for that silly old moralitie, That as these linkes were knit, our love should bee:
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Such dreams Are oftentimes the sleeping exhalations Of that ambition that lies smouldering Under the ashes of the lowest fortune; By which, when reason slumbers, or has lost The reins of sensible comparison, We fly at something higher than we are— Scarce ever dive to lower—to be kings, Or conquerors, crown'd with laurel or with gold, Nay, mounting heaven itself on eagle wings.
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

You have been very good to me, and I owe everything to you.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The one worshipped is the one which gave light on the birthday of the worshipper, and therefore the latter burns candles before that particular image on each succeeding anniversary.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

This is the first sentiment of a modest and ingenuous mind, and it is one indication, in my opinion, of the impropriety of early marriages.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Similar ceremonies are commonly resorted to in other East Indian islands.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Yet he may not be less prone to the tender passion, and when once smitten may be so pene trated by an unimagined tenderness and joy, that he will declare himself incapable of ever loving again, and may actually be so.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

I mean not tolerated popery, and open superstition, which, as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable and compassionate means be used to win and regain the weak and the misled: that also which is impious or evil absolutely either against faith or manners no law can possibly permit, that intends not to unlaw itself: but those neighbouring differences, or rather indifferences, are what I speak of, whether in some point of doctrine or of discipline, which, though they may be many, yet need not interrupt THE UNITY OF SPIRIT, if we could but find among us THE BOND OF PEACE.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

These institutions are two instruments of equal power, which contribute to the supremacy of the majority.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

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— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

Beast-worship must have been the religion of the pre-historic inhabitants of Egypt, and just as Brahmanism has thrown its protection over the superstitions of the aboriginal tribes of India and identified the idols of the populace with its own gods, so too in ancient Egypt a fusion of race must have brought about a fusion of ideas.
— from Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

The direction in which medicine is chiefly working at the present time is that of introducing into the body one disease with the idea of excluding other diseases.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell

It is our earnest desire to safeguard to the fullest extent the interests of Holland and of her nationals.
— from Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

However, we soon lost our fears and misgivings in our eagerness to make the climate as warm for [Pg 125] them as they had so far made it for us, and we settled down to our work with a vim that would have made old veterans envious.
— from The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various

In the supposed case of the balance of the monarchical, aristocratical, and democratical powers, it cannot be for the interest of either the monarchy or the aristocracy to combine with the democracy; because it is the interest of the democracy, or community at large, that neither the king nor the aristocracy should have one particle of power, or one particle of the wealth of the community, for their own advantage.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Abortion is attributed to the malign influence of evil spirits.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 by Edgar Thurston