Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.
— 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.

Mi libro y el de mi hermana.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

I have loathed you every day of these three months since I last saw you.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Indeed there was no rational way of getting martyred; since Christians were allowed free exercise of their religious rites, might preach and teach without let or hindrance, they could not find a legal ground for being persecuted unless they left the paths of the Gospel and set aside the great lesson of Christ, "Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you."
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Nor long shall be our labour, yet ere dawne, Effect shall end our wish.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Nor long shall be our labour; yet ere dawn, Effect shall end our wish.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The reason of my writing again is no novel one: it is merely to repeat that I love you every day and every instant more and more; that I feel convinced you are only too eager to return my sentiments, but that between your desire and your capacity there stands a wall a hundred feet high, entitled “suspicion.”
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Looky here, didn’t de line pull loose en de raf’ go a-hummin’ down de river, en leave you en de canoe behine in de fog?” “What fog?” “Why, de fog!—de fog dat’s been aroun’ all night.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Ah! then, in reading my letter, you evidently did not understand, did not comprehend.
— from Under a Veil: A Comedietta in One Act by George M. (George Melville) Baker

Julia was becoming less young each day, and she was still unwed.
— from Inchbracken: The Story of a Fama Clamosa by Robert Cleland

It was to be followed by others in later years, equally disastrous to the invaders.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek by Charles Morris

"You knows mighty well how dey done las' year en de year 'fo' dat.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

A noble hospitality, a scorn of bargaining, and a lofty yet eminently deferential deportment toward females: in this mould it has cast Southern society, and these traits made the Southern gentleman remarkable, wherever his presence was found.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks

let your engineers do their work and be patient....
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison

In the country parishes, where the [96] cemeteries are in the immediate vicinity of the churches, it is now—though it was not so in former days—the custom to carry the corpse into the church for the reading of the appointed Psalms and Lesson; but in Town, where the burial-grounds are, for the most part, at some considerable distance from the sacred building, this part of the service was, till of late years, entirely dispensed with.
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir