We assured him that he had not yet learned how much men hate the truth, and that his church would not feel herself half as much in danger from an open blasphemer, as from an active lover
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The impulse of the mind is derived from a very strong interest; and those other more minute interests serve only to direct the motion, without adding any thing to it, or diminishing from it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Every human feeling is greater and larger than the exciting cause—a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.
— 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.

Rumors to this effect reached my ears, but gave me not much uneasiness: it never even came into my head, that there could be the least thing in the whole affair which related to me personally, so perfectly irreproachable and well supported did I think myself; having besides conformed to every ministerial regulation, I did not apprehend Madam de Luxembourg would leave me in difficulties for an error, which, if it existed, proceeded entirely from herself.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What has just been said merely affords a preliminary and general indication of how man is distinguished from all the other phenomena of will by the fact that freedom, i.e. , independence of the principle of sufficient reason, which only belongs to the will as thing-in-itself, and contradicts the phenomenon, may yet possibly, in his case, appear in the phenomenon also, where, however, it necessarily exhibits itself as a contradiction of the phenomenon with itself.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The "lex scripta," or written law of Masonry, is derived from a variety of sources, and was framed at different periods.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The tracing on the mirror is done from a design with red carbonised paper, and then retraced with a reed pen and lithographic ink to fix it for painting.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 986, November 19, 1898 by Various

It is all very well for him—plotting plots from the top of the Forrester Building—but it makes it difficult for any one down here inside the firing-line.
— from The White Mice by Richard Harding Davis

Not so much is done for any other visitor—not even for the titled and wealthy stranger.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, October 1884, No. 1 by Chautauqua Institution

The effect of daily counsel together soon made itself distinctly felt, and, under circumstances so different, many of the old ways were departed from.
— from The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo

"I'd like to know just how much it differs from a claim jumper's or a burglar's.
— from Desert Conquest; or, Precious Waters by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm