Knowledge is both subjectively and objectively sufficient.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

they are required, we know, in both states, because the unfortunate need help and the prosperous want people to live with and to do kindnesses to: for they have a desire to act kindly to some one.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

When a Teton Indian is on a journey, and he meets a grey spider or a spider with yellow legs, he kills it, because some evil would befall him if he did not.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Ang mga madri maglatus sa ílang kaugalíngun inigka Byirnis Santu arun pagsakripisyu, The nuns flog themselves on Good Fridays to mortify themselves.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Before this time he had known it but speculatively; now he thought he knew it as a practical man; though perhaps he did not, even yet.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

But as here was a vote where, had a single Senator who voted No voted Aye, some 300,000,000 of dollars, over a thousand lives of American soldiers killed in battle, some 16,000 lives of Filipino soldiers killed in battle, and possibly 100,000 Filipino lives snuffed out through famine, pestilence, and other ills consequent on the war, would have been saved, I can not refrain from reproducing the vote—perhaps the most uniquely momentous single roll-call in the parliamentary history of Christendom 13 :
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

To-morrow he would not suspect, but would be as he had always been, and it would shock me to hear him laugh, and see him do lightsome and frivolous things, for to me he would be a corpse, with waxen hands and dull eyes, and I should see the shroud around his face; and next day he would not suspect, nor the next, and all the time his handful of days would be wasting swiftly away and that awful thing coming nearer and nearer, his fate closing steadily around him and no one knowing it but Seppi and me.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Then, as specimens of other kinds, some ovoides, resembling an egg of a dark brown colour, marked with white bands, and without tails; diodons, real sea-porcupines, furnished with spikes, and capable of swelling in such a way as to look like cushions bristling with darts; hippocampi, common to every ocean; some pegasi with lengthened snouts, which their pectoral fins, being much elongated and formed in the shape of wings, allow, if not to fly, at least to shoot into the air; pigeon spatulae, with tails covered with many rings of shell; macrognathi with long jaws, an excellent fish, nine inches long, and bright with most agreeable colours; pale-coloured calliomores, with rugged heads; and plenty of chaetpdons, with long and tubular muzzles, which kill insects by shooting them, as from an air-gun, with a single drop of water.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Monsieur Guillaumin knew it, being secretly associated with the linendraper, from whom he always got capital for the loans on mortgages that he was asked to make.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

However, I tried to seize her hand and kiss it, but she drew it away, saying pleasantly,— “It’s too much for honour and too little for love.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"I know it; but still it has its compensations."
— from A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Not youthful kings in battle seized alive, Not scornful virgins who their charms survive, Not ardent lover robbed of all his bliss, Not ancient lady when refused a kiss, Not tyrants fierce that unrepenting die, Not Cynthia when her manteau's pinned awry, E'er felt such rage, resentment, and despair, As thou, sad virgin!
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

She could kiss it, but she could not open it.
— from Tommy and Grizel by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

If, then, the intellect knows its own act, it knows it by some act, and again it knows that act by some other act; this is to proceed indefinitely, which seems impossible.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

At nine o’clock that same night, in accordance with an appointment, Ella Drost stood upon the whitewashed kerb in Belgrave Square, at the corner of West Halkin Street.
— from The Bomb-Makers Being Some Curious Records Concerning the Craft and Cunning of Theodore Drost, an Enemy Alien in London, Together with Certain Revelations Regarding His Daughter Ella by William Le Queux

She knew it, but she didn’t care; correctness was the virtue in the world that, like her heroes and heroines, she valued least.
— from The Real Thing and Other Tales by Henry James

(This is its only name, but everybody knows it by sight.)
— from Ladies-In-Waiting by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

In three years the tyrannicides of the ides of March, with their aiders and abettors, were all dead, some killed in battle, some in prison, some dying by their own hand--slain with the daggers with which they had stabbed their master.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude

Mrs. Kybird in the snug seclusion of the back parlour was one thing; Mrs. Kybird in black satin at its utmost tension and a circular hat set with sable ostrich plumes nodding in the breeze was another.
— from At Sunwich Port, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs