One thing, however, I must request: use no more writing-sand with the dear notes you send me.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Arti kaáyu nga manulti ning buánga, mu rag unsay nakamauhan, The fool speaks in an affected way.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But this rule merely requires us never to admit an absolute limit to our series—how far soever we may have proceeded in it, but always, on the contrary, to subordinate every phenomenon to some other as its condition, and consequently to proceed to this higher phenomenon.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Ayg ilábay kay maáyu ra unyà nà, Don’t throw it away because someday it will be of some use.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For the Botany of the Rocky Mountain region use: "New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains."
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

O, may it become more and more refined until nothing shall remain but perfect purity.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

He picked up the book and read the stanza slowly aloud:- “‘From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.’”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

“That dead men rise up never!” That line stirred him with a profound feeling of gratitude.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

While the brush lasted, I had not the time to think if I was frighted; but now, when all was still again, my mind ran upon nothing else.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Midway in their career the Caracci themselves modified their eclecticism and placed more reliance upon nature.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke

Liberty has united the country and there is more real union, national sentiment to-day, North and South, than ever before.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

He was born in Massachusetts, came to man's estate in New York, received from that State the only honors he would accept; and in choosing his place of residence in it gave proof of his modest, retiring, unpretending nature.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

We sleep in peace in the arms of God, when we yield ourselves up to His providence, in a delightful consciousness of His tender mercies; no more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has put us there, and who holds us in His arms.
— from Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be, That no life lives forever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."
— from Stories of Old Greece and Rome by Emilie K. (Emilie Kip) Baker

The eyes of five thousand Indians were fastened there, for from Kentucky had come army after army, driving the savages northward out of the valleys of the Muskingum, Scioto, and Miami Rivers, until now they hovered about the western extremity of Lake Erie.
— from Pilots of the Republic: The Romance of the Pioneer Promoter in the Middle West by Archer Butler Hulbert

The beauty of the [Pg 289] women is as much remarked upon now as in the old days, and the late Mr. Moore cannot be accused of overstepping poetic license on that point.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various