Be govern’d by your knowledge, and proceed I’ the sway of your own will.
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

For a deed is done from passion either when men suddenly, and without intention to kill, cause the death of another by blows and the like on a momentary impulse, and are sorry for the deed immediately afterwards; or again, when after having been insulted in deed or word, men pursue revenge, and kill a person intentionally, and are not sorry for the act.
— from Laws by Plato

But when faith is thus exalted above everything else, it necessarily follows that reason, knowledge and patient inquiry have to be discredited: the road to the truth becomes a forbidden road.—Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I mounted to my chamber; locked myself in; fell on my knees; and prayed in my way—a different way to St. John’s, but effective in its own fashion.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Yet Anne’s ‘Last Lines’—‘I hoped that with the brave and strong’—have sweetness and sincerity; they have gained and kept a place in English religious verse, and they must always appeal to those who love the Brontës because, in the language of Christian faith and submission, they record the death of Emily and the passionate affection which her sisters bore her.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Nindut ning ispungháwu tag buhuk kay dì na lang kinahanglan ang pagpakulung, It’s nice to have soft and wavy hair, because we don’t need to have permanents.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Jonson did not invent the masque; for such premeditated devices to set and frame, so to speak, a court ball had been known and practised in varying degrees of elaboration long before his time.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

"You never kiss a person in that way," she said when she lifted her head.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A fowl was killed and picked in a trice, and Mohammed had all his own way, excepting with regard to the onions, which were, in his opinion, woefully restricted.
— from Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Emma Roberts

had died about six months after he pronounced sentence against the king; and Paul III., of the name of Farnese, had succeeded to the papal throne.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume

Here, mournfully went by, a child who had never had a childhood or known a parent, inseparable from a youth with a bitter sense of his namelessness, coupled to a man the enforced business of whose best years had been distasteful and oppressive, linked to an ungrateful friend, dragging after him a woman once page 5 p. 5 beloved.
— from Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens

Foot passengers proceeding towards Kensington and Paddington in the evening, would wait until a sufficiently numerous band had collected to set footpads at defiance, and then they started in company at known intervals, of which a bell gave due warning.
— from The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles

Then the minister gave him the book to kiss, and placed it upon his head.
— from The Albigensian Heresy by Henry James Warner

On the high mantel was a row of five copper kettles, all polished into a glint of gold, and above them two guns on crockets.
— from Mrs. Severn: A Novel, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mary Elizabeth Carter

He took a keen artistic pleasure in her, she satisfied him, and at first he was almost shy of pressing the acquaintance lest she should fail somewhere.
— from Princess by M. G. (Mary Greenway) McClelland

So the funeral of the young chief took place, but only a cow was killed and put into the coffin.
— from The White Queen of Okoyong: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism and Faith by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone

In Plate I. they are caricature rep­re­sen­ta­tions, from pictures of the Old Masters, of Adam and Eve (suggested by Albert Dürer), of Peter with his Key, and Paul in a black periwig armed with two swords and elevated by high-heeled shoes (travestied from Rembrandt), and of Moses and Aaron.
— from Suppressed Plates, Wood-engravings, &c. Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto; Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector by George Somes Layard