Die Freude kennst du nicht, wenn du nur Freuden kennest; / Dir fehlt das ganze Licht, wenn du's in Strahlen trennest —Joy knowest thou not if thou knowest only joys; the whole light is wanting to thee if thou breakest it up into rays.
— 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.
no funds keine Deckung not prvided for keine Deckung not sufficient funds keine der Regeln berührt none of the provisions affect keine Verpflichtung
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
Young Brooke thinks so too, and says kindly, “You'll cross a lane after next field; keep down it, and you'll hit the Dunchurch road below the Cock,” and then steams away for the run in, in which he's sure to be first, as if he were just starting.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
Baer says: Es hätte dieser Expedition auch die volle Anerkennung nicht fehlen können, die man ihnen jetzt erst zollen muss, nachdem die verwandte Nordküste von Amerika nach vielfachen Versuchen noch immer nicht ganz bekannt worden ist.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen
Its despatch was delayed by a private note from Koba Dennai asking me to name an hour for an interview with him.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow
For a white and pale blush bed we have the pure white Boule de Neige , Coquette des Blanches (both Dwarf Hybrid Noisettes), Frau Karl Druschki , and Marchioness of Londonderry , which is very beautiful when it does well, though this is not always the case.
— from Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley
This city took its name from king Damascus, in whose honour the Syrians revered the tomb of his wife Astarte as a temple, and worshipped her as a goddess in the most sacred manner.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Max Duncker
No. FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Did you have an order to do that?
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various
Two seasons ago a plant of Margaret Dickson had it badly in my garden, and infected its neighbour, Frau Karl Druschki , to an alarming extent.
— from Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley
The facts were not fully known, discontent prevailed, and criticism and condemnation were more likely to augment than to cure the evil.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis
The Hindoo, in like manner, would be told that his aid was needed for keeping down the price of American and Egyptian cotton, and Brazilian and Cuban sugar, and that the price of both would rise were he permitted to obtain machinery that would enable him to mine coal and iron ore, by aid of which to obtain spindles and looms for the conversion of his cotton into cloth, and thus raise the value of his labour.
— from The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by Henry Charles Carey
“No; for Kolyvan does not yet burn.”
— from Michael Strogoff; Or, The Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne
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