Die Sorg' um Künft'ges niemals frommt; Man 20 fühlt kein Uebel, bis es kommt. /
— 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.

Otherwise, because many eyes see the same thing in divers lines, and are apt to look asquint towards their private benefit; they that desire not to misse their marke, though they look about with two eyes, yet they never ayme but with one; And therefore no great Popular Common-wealth was ever kept up; but either by a forraign Enemy that united them; or by the reputation of some one eminent Man amongst them; or by the secret Counsell of a few; or by the mutuall feare of equall factions; and not by the open Consultations of the Assembly.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

and I alone, discoursing of my Lord Sandwich’s matters; who hath, in the first business before the House, been very kindly used beyond expectation, the matter being laid by, till his coming home and old Mr. Vaughan did speak for my Lord, which I am mighty glad of.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A brisk fire of artillery was for a time kept up, but even this died away and nothing but the scattering fire of skirmishers was heard.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

"I'm afraid this driver is going to kill us before ever we can get to the dock."
— from Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach; Or, Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves by Annie Roe Carr

But for going back to gloat over the cure or the whip-lash——No; it will keep us busy enough to find good air and food, every minute for itself"; and, with a ruddy, genial smile, he had stooped and kissed my forehead.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

He did not know until Bob explained to him that each building required special designing to suit certain conditions.
— from Hidden Treasure: The Story of a Chore Boy Who Made the Old Farm Pay by John Thomas Simpson

At the same time, the action of the bowels must be kept up by Epsom salts, or common salt, or sulphur, and the proportion of the purgative and the sedative must be so managed, that the constitution shall be under the influence of both.
— from The American Reformed Cattle Doctor Containing the necessary information for preserving the health and curing the diseases of oxen, cows, sheep, and swine, with a great variety of original recipes, and valuable information in reference to farm and dairy management by George H. Dadd

and I alone, discoursing of my Lord Sandwich's matters; who hath, in the first business before the House, been very kindly used beyond expectation, the matter being laid by, till his coming home and old Mr. Vaughan did speak for my Lord, which I am mighty glad of.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 62: February 1667-68 by Samuel Pepys

But the pleasure of a bone does not last for ever, and among the nobler races of animals Thought cannot be entirely kept under by eating.
— from Cat and Dog; Or, Memoirs of Puss and the Captain by Julia Charlotte Maitland

"It shorely looks as if things was tryin' to keep us back," exclaimed the Panther angrily.
— from The Texan Scouts: A Story of the Alamo and Goliad by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler