No smallest boon were bought too dear, Though barter’d for his love-sick life; Yet trusts he, with undaunted cheer, To vanquish heaven, and call her Wife He notes how queens of sweetness still Neglect their crowns, and stoop to mate; How, self-consign’d with lavish will, They ask but love proportionate; How swift pursuit by small degrees, Love’s tactic, works like miracle; How valour, clothed in courtesies, Brings down the haughtiest citadel; And therefore, though he merits not To kiss the braid upon her skirt, His hope, discouraged ne’er a jot, Out-soars all possible desert.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

Nemo hercule quisquam; nam in me dii plane potestatem Suam omnem ostendere; Is't possible (O my countrymen) for any living to be so happy as myself?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Linquenda tellus, et domus, et placens / Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum, / Te, præter invisas cupressos, / Ulla brevem dominum sequetur —Your estate, your home, and your pleasing wife must be left, and of these trees which you are rearing, not one shall follow you, their short-lived owner, except the hateful cypresses.
— 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.

29 21 No hay que hablarme :
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I imagined that I should not have much difficulty in sending her back to Venice, which she might never have quitted if it had not been for her trust in me, founded on the fallacious promises of her seducer.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Slowly and reluctantly yielding to the necessity, he quitted the place, and mingled with the throng that hovered nigh.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Nihil vero utile, quod non idem honestum, nihil honestum, quod non idem utile sit, saepe testatur negatque ullam pestem maiorem in vitam hominum invasisse quam eorum opinionem, qui ista distraxerint.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

pero no había querido decirte nada, antes de conocer el pensamiento de mi hermana.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Tantus est perturbto mentis, et sedibus suis pilso, furor, ut sic dii placentur, quemadmodum ne homines quidem soviunt.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The neighborhood have quite recovered the death of Mrs. Rider,—so much so, that I think they are [86] rather rejoiced at it now; her things were so very dear!
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

They were all three listening at door and window now, and when Frank threw the one nearest him quickly open, there came a sound through the din and fury of the rain-storm that was neither the howling of the wind nor the yelp of the coyote.
— from Overland Tales by Josephine Clifford

He answered not her question, but her doubt.
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

A Kentucky woman of that historic period, "before the war," would not have questioned the propriety of it, and a Western man of to-day still has the desire to pay everything, everywhere, "for a lady."
— from Manners and Social Usages by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

Fye, speak well of him now, Your Neece has quitted him.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 by John Fletcher

Other writers in plenty have suggested this, but none has quite so plainly and resoundingly thrown down the gauntlet, which we will make bold to lift.
— from The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini

If Nebuchadnezzar had quarrels with the Persians, or the Arabians, or the Medes, or the tribes in Mount Zagros, as is not improbable, nothing is now known of their course or issue.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4: Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

If she had lately suffered, death now had quietly smoothed from her all but a lasting restfulness.
— from The Book of Susan: A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

He noted her quiet manner of speaking and the businesslike way with which she handled her gun.
— from El Diablo by Brayton Norton

At the time of his exile in Corsica, however, Seneca did not hold quite the same opinion of his life on that island, and wrote the Consolatio ad Polybium , full of flattery of Emperor Claudius, mainly to effect his recall.
— from Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors by Francesco Petrarca

A music-book for general use in churches which do not have quartette choirs and "classical" music must be prepared with care and good judgment.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various