No he visto hombre I have never seen a man de corazón más audaz; with a more audacious heart ni halla riesgo que le espante who never finds a risk he fears ni encuentra dificultad nor finds a single problem que al empeñarse en vencer he’ll not attempt to vanquish le haga un punto vacilar.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The cities destroyed by the enemy and abandoned remained in ruins; and the natives, who had escaped the enemy, now fought against each other.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality ; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough : Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Carried to an extreme, the measures seemed at once to be so absurd that the highest authorities, and public opinion, and intellectual ladies, and the newspapers, all at the same time fell foul of them, expressing their indignation both with the measures and their nominal father, Alexey Alexandrovitch.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We now proceed to the account of the other ten; whose names were—J. Philpot, M. Bradbridge, N. Final, all of Tenterden; W. Waterer and T. Stephens, of Beddington; J. Kempe, of Norgate; W. Hay, of Hithe; T. Hudson, of Salenge; W. Lowick, of Cranbrooke; and W. Prowting, of Thornham.
— 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 Russian emperor now for a time identified himself with the Napoleonic schemes, and soon obtained possession of Finland and an extended territory on the Danube.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

No fight any where, but slaughter every where; their bodies, naked and relaxed with sleep, are cut to pieces.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

She was happy even when they did take place; but not from any flow of spirits on his side, or any such expressions of tender gallantry as had blessed the morning.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Not that our part of the world is at all outlandish, according to my view of it (for I never found a better one), but that it was known to be rugged, and large, and desolate.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The scent had never for an instant been lost.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Steamers on Norway fjords are like country gentlemen who go into the city every day and come out at night, always doing unexpected errands for people along the road.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson

Poor N. R. has lain dying now for almost a week; such is the penalty we pay for having enjoyed through life a strong constitution.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Luther's own doctrine of the presence of Christ's Body in the Lord's Supper, which he had previously to defend against Carlstadt, his former colleague and fellow-combatant, now found a far more formidable opponent in the Zurich Reformer, Ulrich Zwingli.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

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— from Valerius. A Roman Story by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

"But I needed food, and one night stole out, only to learn that they had known of my entrance into the cave, and was driven back again, and making my way into the interior, how far I do not know, lay down exhausted, and, on awakening, not knowing which way to go, heard the voices of the savages, and in going in the opposite direction was surprised to see a streak of light ahead.
— from The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Roger Thompson Finlay

I have, but I wouldn't have dumped you out that way, not for a hundred dollars."
— from The Shadow by Mary White Ovington

But an instinctive premonition warned him that the sands in Time's hour-glass were for him running to an end,—there was no leisure left to him now for any new scheme or plan by which he could improve or strengthen that which he had already accomplished.
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

With the earliest men, it is a foregone conclusion, psychologically speaking, that they should so regard it; they could not form any other concept without far more extended knowledge than they have the means of possessing.
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen