That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, "Now I must bear up to the end."
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Now it is evident, that wherever a person is in such a situadon with regard to me, that there is no very powerful motive to deter him from injuring me, and consequently it is uncertain whether he will injure me or not, I must be uneasy in such a situation, and cannot consider the possibility or probability of that injury without a sensible concern.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Death was originally proposed as an object of dread, that sin might not be committed; now it must be undergone that sin may not be committed, or, if committed, be remitted, and the award of righteousness bestowed on him whose victory has earned it.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Now I may be unfortunate, and so lose what I cannot replace or repay.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

I had since that time contracted a habit of reading every night in my bed, until I found my eyes begin to grow heavy.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"No, Catherine, you must not, it might betray us."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

If we would copy nature, it may be useful to take this idea along with us, that pastoral is an image of what they call the Golden Age.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

"If it were on the end of your nose it might be unlucky, but under your arm it is luckily out of the way.
— from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

But it may be doubted if the knowledge and acumen of prejudged scientific opponents, and the subtlety of orthodox special pleaders, have yet exerted their full force in mystifying the real issues of the great controversy which has been set afoot, and whose end is hardly likely to be seen by this generation; so that, at this eleventh hour, and even failing anything new, it may be useful to state afresh that which is true, and to put the fundamental positions advocated by Mr. Darwin in such a form that they may be grasped by those whose special studies lie in other directions.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

But of this number it must be understood that perhaps the wife is at the stall while the husband is on a round, and some whelks are sent out by a man having an extra stock.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

Historical information as to an early substratum of Celtic inhabitants in Britain, as to Saxon, Danish, and Norman invasions may be useful to him.
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Now it must be understood that the relative is to the relative as the relation to the relation.
— from Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church

If we would copy nature, it may be useful to take this idea along with us, that pastoral is an image of what they call the golden age.
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

contemplates in its propositions certain connexions predicated, which are necessarily involved with certain other connexions given: regarding all these connexions as existing in the non-ego —not, it may be, under the form in which we know them, but in some form.’
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

Multitudes who are now idle might be usefully employed.
— from A Tour of the Missions: Observations and Conclusions by Augustus Hopkins Strong