Now, the good is that which, when a man hath got, he can lack nothing further.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Aside from these two enterprises, Mrs. Washington is also largely responsible for a woman's club at the school which brings together, twice a month, the women who live on the school grounds and those who live near, for the discussion of some important topic.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

I had an American friend in London named F., who was fond of hunting, and his friends the Blanks invited him and me to come out to a hunt and be their guests at their country place.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

But a far more important consideration, as I believe, is that, during the process of further modification, by which two varieties are supposed on my theory to be converted and perfected into two distinct species, the two which exist in larger numbers from inhabiting larger areas, will have a great advantage over the intermediate variety, which exists in smaller numbers in a narrow and intermediate zone.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Whoever can turn his weeping eyes to heaven 10 has lost nothing, for there above is everything he can wish for here below.
— 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.

SYN: Sickly, sentimental, maudlin, insipid, loathsome, nauseous, flat.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Speak, lady of the lovely eyes, And let not fear thy joy disguise.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Come, here's to your mistress, you had one when you were living: not forgetting your sweet sister.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But what struck me most was the expression of Lizaveta Nikolaevna from the moment Darya Pavlovna had come in.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

These are the more notable of the Causses, and all, no doubt, formed one mighty plateau 145 in prehistoric times; but numerous swift flowing rivers have through the ages worn them asunder, producing a series of magnificent ravines that contain some of the finest scenery in France, and on whose sides we can trace the slow and steady work of the streams wearing down to their present courses through the limestone, the local name for which is cau , whence causse .
— from In the Track of R. L. Stevenson and Elsewhere in Old France by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

To whom may, with the greatest propriety, be applied a part of the epitaph inscribed to the memory of the celebrated Guicciardini , at Florence ; Cujus Otium an Negotium Gloriosius incertum: Nisi Otii Lumen Negotii Famam Clariorem reddidisset .
— from Medica Sacra Or, A Commentary on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Richard Mead

Tuttavia Lord Byron non si perturbò per nulla; anzi disse al di lui medico che voleva gettarsi al nuoto onde raggiungere la spiaggia: 'Non abbandonate la nave finchè abbiamo forze per direggerla: allorchè saremo coperti dall' acque, allora gettatevi pure, che io vi salvo.'
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

I understand you only came back last night from your——No word I can use would give what I feel about that.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

“Well, long enough to be refused three times to my certain knowledge; why, he doesn’t deny it––proud to let the country know his devotion to the most charming of her sex,” and he gave an ironical little nod for which she exchanged one of her sweetest smiles.
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan

They can be used to widen our markets and to give a greater field for the activities of our producers on the one hand, and on the other hand to secure in practical shape the lowering of duties when they are no longer needed for protection among our own people, or when the minimum of damage done may be disregarded for the sake of the maximum of good accomplished.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

Jacques Cartier had discovered only one great river, had laid the foundations of only one small province; Champlain had only made the circuit of the St. Lawrence, the Ottawa, and the Great Lakes; but here was a country—if the Indians spoke the truth—greater than all the empires of Europe together, a country bounded only by three great seas, the Sea of the North, the Sea of the South, and the Sea of Japan, a country so vast as to stagger the utmost conception of little New France.
— from Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. Laut

But the secret was so well kept, that seventy-eight years after Magellan's voyage round the world, Java and Australia were still believed to be one and the same continent by certain otherwise well-informed navigators, as will be seen by Linschoten's "Discours of Voyages into ye East and West Indies," published in London, in the year 1598, in which the following description, from Portuguese sources, occurs: "South, south-east, right over against the last point or corner of the Isle of Sumatra, on the south, side of the equinoctial line, lyeth the island called JAUA MAIOR, or Great Java, where there is a strait or narrow passage, called the strait of Sunda, of a place so called, lying not far from thence within the Isle of Java.
— from The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts. by George Collingridge

Elevation extremes: lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Lata Mountain 964 m Natural resources: pumice, pumicite Land use: arable land: 10% permanent crops: 15% other: 75% (2005) Irrigated land: NA Natural hazards: typhoons common from December to March Environment - current issues: limited natural fresh water resources; the water division of the government has spent substantial funds in the past few years to improve water catchments and pipelines Geography - note: Pago Pago has one of the best natural deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean, sheltered by shape from rough seas and protected by peripheral mountains from high winds; strategic location in the South Pacific Ocean People American Samoa Population: 64,827 (July 2008 est.)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency