Maka anak pun kahwin, chantek sama chantek, Burok sama burok.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Wà muríma ang púlung kahil sa púlung kahun, The word ‘orange’ does not rhyme with the word ‘box’.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The divine intelligence, being nurtured upon mind and pure knowledge, and the intelligence of every soul which is capable of receiving the food proper to it, rejoices at beholding reality, and once more gazing upon truth, is replenished and made glad, until the revolution of the worlds brings her round again to the same place.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

Self-preservation, in so monstrous a press, knew now no pity, no respect of aught.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Hither came my uncle Fenner, hearing that I was here, and spoke to me about Pegg Kite’s business of her portion, which her husband demands, but I will have nothing to do with it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There are systems of morals which are meant to justify their author in the eyes of other people; other systems of morals are meant to tranquilize him, and make him self-satisfied; with other systems he wants to crucify and humble himself, with others he wishes to take revenge, with others to conceal himself, with others to glorify himself and gave superiority and distinction,—this system of morals helps its author to forget, that system makes him, or something of him, forgotten, many a moralist would like to exercise power and creative arbitrariness over mankind, many another, perhaps, Kant especially, gives us to understand by his morals that "what is estimable in me, is that I know how to obey—and with you it SHALL not be otherwise than with me!"
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Walà pa makabútuk ug maáyu ang mais, maung adúna pa kiniy lísu, The corn grits didn’t get soft and so they still have uncooked grains in the middle.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If thou wilt make any progress keep thyself in the fear of God, and long not to be too free, but restrain all thy senses under discipline and give not thyself up to senseless mirth. Give thyself to compunction of heart and thou shalt find devotion.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

How can I go into society, when to manage properly you want a lot of cabs, varnished boots, gold watch chains, and all sorts of things; you have to wear white doeskin gloves that cost six francs in the morning, and primrose kid gloves every evening?
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Then I assisted another agent in our division in giving the Secret Service some information on an individual in Denton, Tex., who had made some remarks about the President, and another member of my squad had also given some information to the Secret Service the evening of the 21st about the possibility of a demonstration at the Trade Mart against President Kennedy, some picketing.
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

As the caterpillar feeds on the foliage of the sloe, and the moth is fond of resting on the stems and twigs, and appears at the time the bushes are wreathed in their snowy blossoms, the sloe carpet seems to be rather more suitable than are most of the names by which our moths are popularly known.
— from The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series Comprising the Families Noctuidæ to Hepialidæ by Richard South

He married Maud, daughter of William the conqueror, and is characterized as a mild and popular king.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

" Washington was not a learned man, and probably knew very little of Aristotle, but his head was clear and his heart was pure, and he, too, felt that politics was the science of government, and that the result of the government should be the "greatest good to the greatest number" of his fellow citizens.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

I had rather pray a Moneth with Mutton and Porridge Kin.
— from Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

Seniga (Bengal gram: Cicer arietinum ).—An exogamous sept of Mēdara and Pedakanti Kāpu.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Missions, a profitable kind of, 423 .
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

Again, with reference to my own case, or to any case resembling that, let it be granted that I was immoderately and unreasonably transported by anger at the moment;—I thought so myself, after a time, when the journal which published the libel sank under the public neglect; but this was an after consideration; and, at the moment, how heavy an aggravation was given to the stings of the malice, by the deep dejection, from embarrassed circumstances and from disordered health, which then possessed me; aggravations, perhaps, known to the libellers as encouragements for proceeding at the time, and often enough likely to exist in other men's cases.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey