The praises of Alexander, transmitted by a succession of poets and historians, had kindled a dangerous emulation in the mind of Trajan.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Alles wäre gut, wär kein Aber dabei —Everything would be right if it were not for the "Buts." Ger.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

, 258 , 29 Double sense , how to treat what has, 191 , 37 Doubt , as guide in conduct, 296 , 16; a living, 479 , 27; alongside of knowledge, 280 , 53; all, yields to will, 241 , 46; and faith contrasted as to their origin, 233 , 25; and knowledge, 482 , 38; beginning with, 185 , 42; effect of knowledge on, 525 , 6; effect of, on faith, 552 , 18; effect of, on good, 505 , 11; enfeebling effect of, 150 , 22; from knowledge, 42 , 7, 22; 163 , 22; honest faith in, 477 , 8; in, lean to mercy, 186 , 12; in philosophy and in religion, 35 , 24; modest, beacon of the wise, 281 , 35; no, no inquiry, 174 , 46; no permanence in, 474 , 2; no risk in, with disposition to believe, 296 , 4; parent of certainty, 474 , 2; rule when in, 547 , 4, 8; service of, 530 , 42; the effect of, 201 , 13; the end of, 425 , 10; the evil of, 23 , 18; the value of, 452 , 3; to be once in, 490 , 31 Doubtful matter, rule in, 186 , 10 Doubting , as necessary as knowing, 167 , 46; condition of knowing, 142 , 27 Doubts , Faust on his, 278 , 54; Goethe's impatience with, 169 , 14; our, traitors, 337 , 40; resolved by interest, 111 , 43; to be affirmed or denied, 12 , 28 Down , he that is, 147 , 5, 6; down in the world, 3 , 5; in the world, quite, 542 , 18 Downhill , a man going, 542 , 9 Dowries , evil of excessive, 379 , 23 Dowry , a great, 71 , 55; a true, 309 , 22 Drama , real object of, 450 , 42 Dramas on earth, composed in heaven, 127 , 2 Drawing , Ruskin's caution in regard to, 142 , 29 Dreadful thing, between acting and first motion of, a, 29 , 60 Dream , love's young, 33 , 28; the loveliest, and fear, 469 , 16 Dreamer , a sort of madman, 424 , 20 Dreaming , not man's end, 266 , 18; of dreaming, 521 , 35 Dreams , children of night, 41 , 52; fear underlying, 27 , 50; not to be regarded, 371 , 11; into realities, 92 , 30; and sense, 337 , 41 Dregs , always sink to bottom, 424 , 21 Dress , deceptive, 23 , 13; expensiveness of, 528 , 11; medicine for women, 446 , 10; rule for, 394 , 50; standard of, 76 , 19; vanity of loving, 460 , 25 Drill , not catechism, now needed, 458 , 36 Drink , guid, effect of, on speech, 99 , 35; the effects of, 365 , 44 Drinking , always, effect of, 479 , 19; five excuses for, 390 , 1; more deadly than thirst, 87 , 30; motives for, 398 , 5; the evil in, 488 , 30 Drinks , to be shunned, 389 , 44 Drop , power of a falling, 137 , 40, 41; the last, 438 , 4 Drugs , to be shunned, 389 , 44 Drunkard , and his rights, 424 , 23; and the attendant furies, 499 , 31 Drunkenness and gluttony, evil effects of, 124 , 39 Dryasdust , affecting to teach, 162 , 26 Dualism , universal, 10 , 52 Dulness , gentle, and its joke, 124 , 24 Dumb , Kant's two things that strike, 504 , 9 Dunce , a travelled and untravelled, 162 , 3; as representing a class of men, 273 , 40; female, offensive, 164 , 41 Duped , fear of being, 151 , 22; sure way to be, 235 , 30 Dupes at first, knaves at last, 329 , 20 Dust , a handful, power of, 313 , 41; power of a little, 155 , 44 {pg 589} Duties , first, of a man, 428 , 14, 15, 25; holy, the band of, 40 , 40; knowledge of, best part of philosophy, 221 , 12; not self-elected, 262 , 3; the primal, and charities, 449 , 21 Duty , a, laid on all, 539 , 34; a man's sphere of, 477 , 41; a path open to all, 110 , 12; a plain, for all, 525 , 23; a spur to, 365 , 15; ahead, 267 , 1; akin to love, 255 , 4; and pleasure, everywhere, 292 , 49; at all hazards, 99 , 54; before even search for truth, 304 , 38; better known than practised, 93 , 24; defined by Wordsworth, 402 , 38; doing, blessedness of, 184 , 38; doing, lesson learned by, 403 , 47; doing one's utmost, 146 , 3; doing what lies nearest, 168 , 13; effect of trying to do, 502 , 47; immediate, of man, 521 , 44; importance of doing one's, 172 , 9; in, prompt, 186 , 14; its reward, 451 , 23; knowing and doing, everything, 215 , 40; life of education, 233 , 21; main thing for, 457 , 22; more potent than love, 254 , 4; most arduous, most sacred, 230 , 26; not speculation, supreme business of man, 140 , 23; our aversion to, 54 , 2; our rule, 47 , 3; our sole concern, 296 , 48; our, the king's, 94 , 12; path of, way to glory, 312 , 45; perplexities regarding, 87 , 33; point of, 519 , 33; present, 186 , 1; reward of following, 146 , 11; rule of, 366 , 23; sense of, central, 453 , 12; sole survivor of faith and love, 326 , 4; stated, the large claim of, 325 , 4; sum of, 240 , 49; 486 , 11; that lies nearest, to be done, 72 , 10, 11; the assigned, to be done, 72 , 9, 12; the condition of existence, 312 , 40; the law of life, 251 , 56; the sum of, 496 , 20; the whisper of, and the response, 395 , 20; the whole of, 103 , 33; time for every, 127 , 26; to others, 1 , 9; troublesome, 93 , 29; virtue essential to, 413 , 26; we are now called to, 494 , 11;
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The gods, perceiving these tiny, unformed creatures creeping in and out, gave them form and features, and they became known as dark elves, on account of their swarthy complexions.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

It is not surprising, that the progress of the human mind, which, in moral science, after the first dawn of enquiry, was rapid both amongst the Greeks and Romans, should be slow in the improvement of such branches of knowledge as depended entirely on observation and facts, which were peculiarly difficult of attainment.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

It is difficult to define knowledge, difficult to decide whether we have any knowledge, and difficult, even if it is conceded that we sometimes have knowledge to discover whether we can ever know that we have knowledge in this or that particular case.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Colia did not know any details, except that it had been a terrible quarrel!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was there, I say, hung on iron hooks many years, till the third of King Edward VI., that one Sir Stephen, curate of St. Katherine Christ’s church, preaching at Paules cross, said there that this shaft was made an idol, by naming the church of St. Andrew with the addition of “under that shaft:” he persuaded therefore that the names of churches might be altered; also that the names of days in the week might be changed; the fish days to be kept any days except Friday and Saturday, and the Lent any time, save only betwixt Shrovetide and Easter.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

But in all our attempts to educate self-love into harmony with Universal benevolence, we contend with the enemy, somewhat as Hercules wrestled with Antaeus:— Und erstickst du ihn nicht in den Luften frei, Stets wachst ihm die Kraft anf der Erde neu.
— from The Growth of Thought as Affecting the Progress of Society by William Withington

He who moves heaven and all the stars in air Made me for His delight Lovesome and sprightly, kind and debonair, E'en here below to give each lofty spright Some inkling of that fair That still in heaven abideth in His sight; But erring men's unright, Ill knowing me, my worth Accepted not, nay, with dispraise did bate.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

"Mister, you are not on your knees, as directed," exclaimed Cadet Prescott.
— from Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Or, Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

The tract of land between Killulloo and Dathára especially has been visited and overwhelmed by the action from below, which, having reversed the original disposition, has covered the surface with the effects of its violence.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

Now, our horses, I take it, are the descendants of those original horse-and-donkey-like creatures which took to the grassy meadows, and so waxed fat, and kicked, and developed exceedingly; while our donkeys, I imagine, are the poor, patient offspring of those less lucky brothers or cousins which were pushed by degrees into the deserts and arid hills, and there grew accustomed to a very sparse diet of the essentially prickly and thorny shrubs which always inhabit such spots, just as gorse and heather inhabit our British uplands.
— from Moorland Idylls by Grant Allen

BY GIORDANO First performance of "Madame Sans-Gene," A singing Napoleon, Royalties in opera, Henry the Fowler, King Mark, Verdi's Pharaoh, Herod, Boris Godounoff, Macbeth, Gustavus and some mythical kings and dukes, et seq.—Mattheson's "Boris," Peter the Great, Sardou's play and Giordano's opera, Verdi on an operatic Bonaparte, Sardou's characters, "Andrea Chenier," French Rhythms, "Fedora," "Siberia," The historic Chenier, Russian local color, "Schone Minka," "Slava," "Ay ouchnem," French revolutionary airs, "La Marseillaise," "La Carmagnole," "Ca ira," CHAPTER XVII
— from A Second Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel

He knew and determined everything, from the terms of treaties with foreign Powers to the wages of the Khedive's English coachman.
— from The White Prophet, Volume 1 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir

she said intrepidly, while keeping a discreet eye on the whip.
— from The Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Gude kens a' did, every ane, though it 's no mony we can tak; but preserve's, wha's yon?” It was not needful to ask, for indeed only one man in the parish could walk with such grave and stately dignity, and that because his father and grandfather had been parish ministers before him.
— from The Days of Auld Lang Syne by Ian Maclaren