For when the will abandons what is above itself, and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil—not because that is evil to which it turns, but because the [Pg 489] turning itself is wicked.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

She fled, re-entered the house, and shut herself up in her chamber to peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And thus any bodily pain, let it be ever so grievous, may be endurable where any hopes are proposed of some considerable good; and we receive such consolation from a virtuous and illustrious life that they who lead such lives are seldom attacked by grief, or but slightly affected by it.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"One night last winter I was lying in bed thinking about nothing at all in particular.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

He was no doubt less influenced by the flattery of the French Academy and other institutions than is generally supposed.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

For government, let it be in the hands of one, assisted with some counsel; and let them have commission to exercise martial laws, with some limitation; and, above all, let men make that profit of being in the wilderness, as they have God always, and his service, before their eyes.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Indeed, at one time it was believed that the best way for them to communicate was through systematized gestures, the sign language invented by the Abbe de l'Epee.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

"Well, you see," said his uncle, "they've got to like it, because when they're once in it they can't well turn to anything else.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Prussia was seething with conspiracy, Russia with ill-concealed hatred, the English had just landed in Belgium, and Wellesley had just won Talavera.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

“He’ll like it better if us talks o’ somethin’ else,” said Dickon.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Let it be said here that east-bound trains are always indicated by even numbers and west-bound trains by odd ones.
— from The Young Train Master by Burton Egbert Stevenson

A friend of mine who lives in Beckenham tells me there are fifteen hundred in his parish.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

Supposing ten thousand carpenters were to land in Baltimore at once, would they have business?
— from A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings On Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects by Noah Webster

] Most mighty sovereign, [Pg 518] Thus low I bow in humble reverence, To kiss the basis of your regal throne.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13 by Robert Dodsley

Aurora stood for some minutes turning the nugget over and over in her fingers; then she moved to the shanty door and looked in, but turned away with a muttered exclamation, and went to the entrance of the back tent.
— from In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson

Nothing is more sorrowful and ugly than this laugh; it burns and withers.
— from A Chambermaid's Diary by Octave Mirbeau

In both the space and color relations the batik worker has control of the entire surface subject only to the limitations imposed by the mediums in which he is working.
— from Batik and Other Pattern Dyeing by Ida Strawn Baker

You may also make an hot Paste, for minced Pyes, or such like, by taking a quantity of Flour as you like, and break a Pound or two of Butter into a large Sauce-pan of Water; and when the Butter is melted, make an hollow in the midst of the Flour, and scumming off the Butter, throw it, at times, into the Flour, with some of the boiling hot Water along with it; then, when you have enough for your use, work it into a stiff Paste, and lay it before the Fire, cover'd with a Cloth, and cut off such bits as you want, just when you are going to use them.
— from The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Richard Bradley