Si genus humanum, et mortalia temnitis arma; / At sperate Deos memores fandi atque nefandi —If you despise the human race and mortal arms, yet expect that the gods will not be forgetful of right and wrong. Virg.
— 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.

I was arrived at that happy point of knowledge, and my want of memory was such as constantly to keep me there, that I knew little enough to make the whole new to me, and yet everything that was necessary to make me sensible to the beauties of all the parts.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Véte, Jaime de mi alma; yo esperaré tu regreso.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

I war gone thirty, an' th' feyther too, afore we war married; an' young enough too.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Our common humanity, mine and yours, everywhere: "The same old blood—the same red, running blood;" yet behind most, an inferr'd arriere of such storms, such wrecks, such mysteries, fires, love, wrong, greed for wealth, religious problems, crosses—mirror'd from those crazed faces (yet now temporarily so calm, like still waters,) all the woes and sad happenings of life and death—now from every one the devotional element radiating—was it not, indeed, the peace of God that passeth all understanding , strange as it may sound?
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Arthur’s people were of course poor material for a republic, because they had been debased so long by monarchy; and yet even they would have been intelligent enough to make short work of that law which the king had just been administering if it had been submitted to their full and free vote.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

And we reckon Harald Gormson to be of less power and consideration than the Upsala kings, for our relation Styrbjorn subdued him, and Harald became his man; and yet Eirik the Victorious, my father, rose over Styrbjorn's head when it came to a trial between them.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The other parts of these individuals of which we have spoken, such as breath and matter, are void of perception and of mutual affection; yet even they are held together by the intelligent spirit and gravitate together.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Will you three months hence be in a situation to perform the journey more at your ease than at present?
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But," she said, the faintest pout entering into her tone, "you didn't come back last night and meet me, as you engaged to!"
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The circles that were described were so small that the blade seemed scarcely to move; and yet every thrust was put aside by a slight movement of the wrist, and he felt that he was at his opponent's mercy the whole time.
— from With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

This joy alone enables me to accept your admiring exclamations without bashfulness; for I feel that when you praise my gifts and my achievements you express thereby only your joy at having met me at the core of art.
— from Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Franz Liszt

I understand that you have some matters of importance to communicate to me; but before doing so, let me request of you to take a little wine, you can have whatever you like best—there's some Madeira at your elbow there, which I can safely recommend, as I have just tasted it myself—o-oh!
— from The Cock and Anchor by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

I thank you all, now are my joyes at full, when I behold you safe, my loving Subjects; by you I grow, 'tis your united love that lifts me to this height: all the account that I can render you for all the love you have bestowed on me, all your expences to maintain my war, is but a little word, you will imagine 'tis slender paiment, yet 'tis such a word, as is not to be bought but with your bloods, 'tis Peace.
— from A King, and No King by John Fletcher

After a few minutes of solemn silence, the eyes of Miriam were turned mournfully, and yet eagerly, toward the hill beyond the city’s wall.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, July 1849 by Various

These feelings would and ought naturally to have induced me, and you expressed the same wish, to withdraw altogether from public life; and my wife, irksome to her as is her residence here, was of the same opinion.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

"Now, dear Katherine, do tell me— are you engaged to any one?
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

Requiring a very moist atmosphere, yet exiled to places where it doesn't rain for months at a time.
— from The Raid on the Termites by Paul Ernst

"Now," said he when we were seated, "I have a secret to impart; but, according to an old promise which does not leave me free, I must ask you each to give me a solemn promise not to reveal it.
— from The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker