The annual visits are made and returned with peaceful regularity and bland satisfaction, although it is not necessary that the two ladies shall actually see each other oftener than once every few years.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
— 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.

But when some of these objects approach nearer to us, or acquire the advantages of favourable lights and positions, which catch the heart or imagination; our general resolutions are frequently confounded, a small enjoyment preferred, and lasting shame and sorrow entailed upon us.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

En 1993, grâce au réseau qu'il a constitué de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique, il crée la société G.a Communications, qui aide les sociétés américaines spécialisées en technologies de l'information à définir et mettre en place leur politique européenne, particulièrement en matière de stratégie, de partenariat et de visibilité.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But in a natural classification many fossil species certainly stand between living species, and some extinct genera between living genera, even between genera belonging to distinct families.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

But she pretended not to feel it, laughed scornfully, and said, "Early to-morrow morning thou shalt arrange all the wood in one heap, set fire to it, and burn it."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

It was not so much the lecture which interested him as the legs which looked straighter and stronger each day, the boyish head which held itself up so well, the once sharp chin and hollow
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The thoughtfulness of this soldier of fortune was illustrated by the fact that he wrote an official letter, signed and sealed, exonerating Foster from blame for not having dispatched his mail bags.
— from The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents by George Barton

Islanders and mountaineers, they were, by their very position, heirs to the blessings of freedom and commerce; nor had the spirit of either, through all their long slavery and sufferings, ever wholly died away.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

A single abbey, that of St. Michel de Cuxa, possessed thirty lordships and similar rights in two hundred other places, and there were two other abbeys, Arles, and Cornella de Conflent, each richer than the Templars.—Allart, Bulletin de la Société Agricole, Scientifique et Littéraire des Pyrénées Orientales, T. XV.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

Another is that thou beest not of great but of little speech; and specially ever till thine heart be established in the love of Jesus Christ: so that men think thou ever lookest on Him, whether thou speakest or not.
— from The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises by Rolle, Richard, of Hampole

A fresh young man With shoes of tan, Looks spick and span— Expectation.
— from Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse by Edwin Carty Ranck

Scenes of little significance are sometimes elaborately described by Renan while more important ones are barely touched on.
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

He admitted that the Westminster Gazette employed some boys as carriers and that the whole subject lay somewhat heavily on his conscience because, "practically speaking, these boys have no future ... a few of them may become cyclists carrying the newspapers ... in a few years their usefulness as cyclists has gone ... then they simply drift away, we don't know where, but we do know that they drift to places like Salvation Army Shelters, etc.
— from Child Labor in City Streets by Edward Nicholas Clopper

The popular notion obviously is that sickness is caused by invisible beings of a malignant nature who on the occasion of this festival can be driven across the local streams and so expelled from the village.
— from Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir