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Mässigkeit entspringt ein reines
Aus Mässigkeit entspringt ein reines Glück —Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
— 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.

modification expansion extension revision
[copy with some differences] derivative, derivation, modification, expansion, extension, revision; second edition &c. (repetition) 104.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

most excellent end reminding
"That," said Don Quixote, "is not and ought not to be called deception which aims at virtuous ends;" and the marriage of lovers he maintained to be a most excellent end, reminding them, however, that love has no greater enemy than hunger and constant want; for love is all gaiety, enjoyment, and happiness, especially when the lover is in the possession of the object of his love, and poverty and want are the declared enemies of all these; which he said to urge Senor Basilio to abandon the practice of those accomplishments he was skilled in, for though they brought him fame, they brought him no money, and apply himself to the acquisition of wealth by legitimate industry, which will never fail those who are prudent and persevering.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Material esthetic embodied representative
SYN: Material, esthetic, embodied, representative, symbolical.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

my eyes ever rested
The room itself was likewise hung with silken stuffs, which gave it a look of Oriental splendor; but never in my travels among strange peoples of far-away lands had my eyes ever rested upon any work of art that equalled the crystal throne upon which sat Galaxa, Queen of the Mikkamenkies.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Mayor E E RAWSON
JAMES M. CALHOUN, Mayor, E. E. RAWSON and S. C. Wares, representing City Council of Atlanta.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

my evil eye refused
On one occasion, when I was in camp at Coimbatore, the Oddēs (navvies) being afraid of my evil eye, refused to fire a new kiln of bricks for the new [ 110 ] club chambers, until I had taken my departure.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

me Elizabeth exclaimed reaching
Perhaps you can help me," Elizabeth exclaimed, reaching for her suit case.
— from Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories by Florence Finch Kelly

merits everything else remaining
This is a provision that would stand to be argued on its own merits, everything else remaining as it is.
— from Practical Essays by Alexander Bain

must exist either restriction
—In every case there must exist either restriction of movement or an evident abnormal position of the leg, or both conditions may exist at once.
— from Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix

MISS ELLA E ROPER
BY MISS ELLA E. ROPER.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 05, May, 1895 by Various

Mrs Elvira Eells Rev
In 1838, Rev. Elkanah Walker, Mrs. Mary Walker, Rev. Cushing Eells, Mrs. Elvira Eells, Rev. A. B. Smith, Mrs. E. Smith, and Mrs. [Pg 192] Mary A. Gray, missionaries of the American Board.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

met everywhere en route
In conclusion, let me add, to the many friends we met everywhere en route , for their numberless kindnesses and unstinted courtesies, we were much indebted; and I would gratefully record my sense of this here.
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

Malahide Elgin E R
Malahide Elgin, E. R. Philip Hodgkinson Aylwin Aylwin Ottawa J. Little * Ayr Dumfries Waterloo, S. R. Robert Wylie [8] Ayton Normanby Grey John McPhillips Baby’s Point Sombra Lambton J. D. McDonald Babyville Sherrington Napierville Humphrys Nesbitt Baden Wilmot Waterloo, S. R. Jacob Beck Bagot Bagot Renfrew John Halliday Bagotville Bagot Chicoutimi E. Levesque Baillargeon St. Etienne de Lauzon Lévis A. Simoneau Baillieboro’ Cavan Durham, E. R.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1865 by Canada. Post Office Department

most educated Europeans really
Nominally, I say, because, in spite of creeds and formularies, the influence of Plato and other ancient thinkers, as well as of surviving ancestral ideas, has made most educated Europeans really believe in Immortality, even when they imagine themselves to be believing in Resurrection.
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen


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