If however it seems that no attempt at cure has been left untried, let us say to the talkative person, "Be silent, boy; silence has great advantages;" two of the first and foremost of which are hearing and being heard, neither of which can happen to talkative people, for however they desire either so unhappy are they that they must desist from it.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

When you look up, let us start our friendship all over again, only before you do, listen to my confession.
— from Nobody's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Luther undoubtedly lays undue stress on those tenets of the faith which seem to him to refer to justification and spiritual freedom, and he does so to the detriment of what remains.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

'I have bribed a domestic.—A horse is in waiting.—Let us fly!' 'Let us, let us!' said I, disengaging myself.
— from The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett

"Let up, let up," said Tom thickly.
— from John Ward, Preacher by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

The door seemed to be lifted up, literally, until some of its bolts and hinges actually bulged and cracked.
— from Guy Garrick by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

I kept looking up, looking up, searching for the north star, and pretty soon I made it out, or thought I did, through a rift in the blackness.
— from Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett

Must then that which was one’s Soul’s soul, Be so reft away, and leave us, Leave us, struck in Life’s mid fulness Deathly-sorrowful, and faltering?
— from The Life of Carmen Sylva (Queen of Roumania) by Natalie Stackelberg

Let us look upon sin with no other notion than as the object of God’s hatred, the cause of his grief in the creatures, and the spring of the pain and ruin of the world.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

A house in that favoured locality, which had for several months maintained “the solemn stillness and the dread repose” which appertain to dwellings that are to be let upon lease, unfurnished, suddenly started into that exuberant and aggressive life which irritates the nerves of its peaceful neighbours.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron