In his enthusiasm about the problems which occupied his mind day and night, he sharpened his intellect into a weapon capable of demolishing every foolish objection, and suddenly stood in our midst like a preacher in the wilderness.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

And that’s humiliating for a young man of any pride, in our day especially....” “But remorse?
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He may keep me on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” “You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Yes—entirely her own doing, entirely her own choice; and Colonel and Mrs. Campbell think she does quite right, just what they should recommend; and indeed they particularly wish her to try her native air, as she has not been quite so well as usual lately.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

He had never had either wife or daughter; excesses had reduced him to this sluggish condition; he was a sort of human mollusk who should be classed among the capulidoe, so one of the dinner contingent, an employe at the Museum, who had a pretty wit of his own.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

society, 190 , 34 Hid , what cannot be, disclosing, 325 , 32 Hierograms , sacred, 99 , 17 High , and low, independent of place, 315 , 4; and low, pleasures of, contrasted, 238 , 29; apprehension of the, rare, 419 , 26; looks and mean thoughts, 274 , 42; man, the, a failure, 482 , 4; place, men in, thrice servants, 275 , 18; rank not same as discernment, 233 , 34; station, effect of, 238 , 22; the, low origin of, 23 , 46; things, effect of converse with, 328 , 26; things, exposure of, to danger, 379 , 31; things, mind not, 279 , 35 Higher , a, acknowledgment of, necessary to man, 61 , 10; reverence for a, 340 , 45 Highest , attainable by the lowest, 116 , 27; not to be spoken of in words, 188 , 27; the, exemplar of each, 28 , 12; the, in God's esteem, 434 , 43; the, to be loved, 527 , 17; the, to be reverenced, 375 , 29; things, above control, 189 , 26 Highway , not to be deserted, 71 , 46; sowing in, 148 , 21 Highways , public, to be kept clear, 450 , 8 Hill , going down, 171 , 31 Hills , seen far off, 31 , 4; steep, climbing, 244 , 12 Hindus , the, vow of, 64 , 34 Hint , enough for the wise, 235 , 3 Hip , catch one upon, 172 , 33 Historian , a, a species of prophet, 435 , 15 Historical genius, the true, 458 , 46 History , a great, an epical, 287 , 32; a satire on humanity, 121 , 54; all, a Bible, 9 , 44; always a pleasure, 157 , 20; and biography, identical, 476 , 24; and conscience, 204 , 5; effect on, of heroes, 228 , 15; God in, 150 , 23; how to read, 455 , 40; interest of, 462 , 9; laws of, Cicero's, 366 , 29; man's, summarised, 266 , 37; of every man, 435 , 18; our best, 337 , 14; our, Cromwell on, 534 , 3; problems of, confronted, 207 , 33; study of, profitlessness of, for self-culture, 304 , 31; temporal, meaning of, 455 , 1; the best benefit from, 53 , 30; the facts of, 457 , 33; the only poetry, 446 , 12; the only true, 30 , 22; the two pinions of, 402 , 37; the verdict of, when possible, 207 , 27; Voltaire's view of, 223 , 19; what constitutes, 335 , 42 Hoard , and heart, 338 , 17; to be moderate, 340 , 10 Hoarding , and enjoying, 539 , 45; forfeiting life, 144 , 53 Hobbes' thesis , 157 , 47 Hobby-horses , expensiveness of, 402 , 31 Holdfast , the only dog, 110 , 29 Hole , a, in a' your coats, 174 , 49 Holiness , different effects of, and liberty, 245 , 38; no, without health, 12 , 22 Holy , give not, to dogs, 123 , 21; prior to unholy, 94 , 22 Holy Land , the, 482 , 32 Home , a golden milestone, 75 , 16; a good, man unworthy of, 304 , 1; a man's starting-point, 163 , 8; a necessity, 105 , 5; a palace, 36 , 32; a source of joy, 174 , 3; being far from, 102 , 9; good of, 12 , 4; happy at, advice to, 71 , 1; how made attractive, 165 , 30; how regarded in England, 82 , 44; no longer cared for, a bad sign, 543 , 5; no place like, 279 , 2; not here, 414 , 16; of one's own, and a good wife, value of, 78 , 48; place of peace, 325 , 48; returning under good omens, 300 , 13; sacredness of, 474 , 18; safest refuge, 71 , 11; staying at, commended, 533 , 1; the dream of, 551 , 30; value of, enhanced by travel, 95 , 1; where a true woman is, 549 , 11 Home-life , backbone of a nation, 305 , 26 Homer , art of, 534 , 10; Carlyle on Iliad of, 158 , 37; 436 , 17; dead, rivalry for, 387 , 49, 50; ground of our interest in, 70 , 32; nods, 8 , 38; rank as poet, 503 , 48; the praise of, 368 , 46 Homers , how made great, 489 , 1 Homes , how, thrive, 45 , 29; why unhappy, 275 , 2 Honest , heart, disadvantage of, 445 , 43; I dare to be, 165 , 38; man, an, 15 , 17; man, Burns on, 16 , 65; man, the, 435 , 27, 28; man, unaffected, 443 , 16; people, chief misfortune of, 333 , 25; to be as this world goes, 490 , 22 Honesty , a powerful fetter, 21 , 44; a true, single-hearted, 536 , 32; as a legacy, 302 , 44; as policy, 35 , 9; before riches, 521 , 17; cheaper than hypocrisy,533, 15; contrasted with knavery, 219 , 42, 43, 47; if pawned, never redeemed, 229 , 29; indispensableness of, 304 , 24; lasts longest, 78 , 25; not safe, 409 , 27; often goaded to ruin, 4 , 47; out of world of knaves, how, 123 , 41; rare, 25 , 38; recommends itself, 106 , 31; strong in, 474 , 33; the importance of, 428 , 38; the value of, 370 , 48; to be practised, 504 , 15; who pauses in, 441 , 19 Honey , a waste of, 200 , 41; who would gather, 152 , 52 Honey-bees , so work the, 395 , 36 Honour , acme of, 460 , 18; and duty, the post of, 541 , 19; and glory, 463 , 11; an earnest of more, 223 , 31; an upholding power, 415 , 12; as reward, 159 , 46, 47; before fear of death, 173 , 7; before {pg 606} life, 406 , 38; bound by, 170 , 13; call of, to be followed, 172 , 25; effect of, on arts, 159 , 49; I love the name of, 167 , 47; in the meanest habit, 20 , 53; in what it lies, 3 , 59; incompatible with ease, 76 , 8; loss of, 78 , 22; 172 , 40; lost, all lost, 105 , 55; 106 , 1; man worthy of, sure destiny of, 68 , 10; mine, my life, 279 , 43; more precious than life, 246 , 30; new-made, doth forget men's names, 207 , 29; not merely to be wooed, 384 , 34; once lost, 7 , 29; our true, the seat of, 338 , 42; post of, Carlyle on, 448 , 35; public, effect of, 357 , 8; reward of action, 272 , 8; stintedness in, 532 , 3; the place of virtue, 199 , 38; the post of, 47 , 25; titles of, 489 , 16, 17; to only two sets of men, 503 , 45; to whom due, effect on, 22 , 11; true and false, 199 , 15; undeserved, delight in, 101 , 3 Honourable , nothing, without justice, 299 , 11; praiseworthy, 159 , 36; the, defined, 535 , 45 Honours , and manners, 238 , 37; dearly bought, 238 , 38; effect of, on manners, 159 , 48; great, great burdens, 133 , 35; hereditary, value of, 155 , 22; how to render remote, near, 474 , 16; men's, 312 , 13 Hood , a page of, Lowell on, 130 , 23 Hoof , a clattering, 155 , 29 Hook , to be always baited, 386 , 37 Hope , a helmet, 118 , 22; a long, 79 , 22; a too dear, 476 , 42; a waking dream, 110 , 4; 222 , 44; against fortune, 552 , 29; air-castles of, still in the air, 140 , 24; all men's, 223 , 18; all-pervasive, 405 , 50; cherisher of life, 49 , 52; deceitful, 320 , 23; enjoyment, 495 , 7; evil of want of, 548 , 42; fed by fancy, 119 , 9; good, the effect of, 401 , 29; he who lives by, 441 , 18; indulgence in, 509 , 41; last stay to give way, 227 , 36; living in, 147 , 43; man's great, 265 , 21; man's greatest happiness, 110 , 41; man's only possession, 263 , 48; never comes, 548 , 23; never lose, 382 , 6; no extinguishing of, 311 , 45; no, no fear, 548 , 15; often illusory, 3 , 9; persistency of, 224 , 15; persuasive power of, 180 , 33; power of, 173 , 13; 525 , 20; prayed for, as a blessing, 37 , 27; sayings about, 400 , 31-33; our inclination to, 521 , 31; term of, 5 , 4; the phœnix, 447 , 39; the power of, 319 , 16; to be cherished, 112 , 42; true, 500 , 6; vain, gain in loss of, 20 , 25; worse than despair, 563 , 13 Hopes , a bad investment, 401 , 22, 23; as causes of ruin, 102 , 11; high, 82 , 41; our, defined, 338 , 18; vain spending on, 78 , 10 Horace , his aim in life, 279 , 20; on his muse, 63 , 31 Horace's , prayer, 158 , 1; thanksgiving to the gods, 63 , 30 Horizon , a property in the, 470 , 21 Horse , a willing, 32 , 58; and his rider, 117 , 7; bridled, ear of, 84 , 20; even a, will stumble, 89 , 20; grown fat, 37 , 19; sayings about the, 435 , 30, 31; what makes a good, 36 , 1 Horses , buying, 185 , 18; in England and Italy, 82 , 45; to be fed, not pampered, 84 , 16 Hospitable heart, who owns, 403 , 27 Hospitality , a, not to be refused, 399 , 2; genuine, effect of, 471 , 8; not impoverishing, 168 , 9; what it consists of, 242 , 19 Host , the, characterised, 435 , 32 Houndsditch , the exodus from, when possible, 523 , 11 Hour , darkest, 422 , 38; past, never returns, 292 , 48; that brings pleasant weather, 484 , 27; the call of, 71 , 31; the, God's, 223 , 18; the morning, 283 , 47; the transient, to be seized, 36 , 53 Hours , all, to be improved, 406 , 7; happy, 435 , 36 House , an empty, 435 , 37; divided against itself, 171 , 8; full of guests, 36 , 31; one's own, one's real root-room, 317 , 44; ornament of a, 446 , 31; the, what it may be made, 333 , 2 Household as home, 435 , 39 Households , kingdoms, 251 , 22 House-keeping , hard, 270 , 45; vice of our, 460 , 34 House-mother , a good, 389 , 7 Houses , high, upper storey of, 156 , 31; repairing old, cost of, 327 , 19 How , question of, 518 , 25 Human , affairs, their risings and sinkings, 451 , 46; countenances, sympathetic, 510 , 26; element in man, 533 , 45; face, Sir J. Reynolds on, 435 , 41; kindness, full o' the milk o', 564 , 36; mind, the disease of, at present, 423 , 44; mind, saying of, 498 , 5; nature, everywhere the same, 332 , 17; nature, how to distort, 152 , 40; nature, its derivation, 65 , 34; nature, rules applicable to, 189 , 52; nature, strength of, under wrong, 468 , 12; nature, the peculiarity of, 3 , 65; nature, two ruling principles in, 504 , 2; race, character of, 100 , 36; race, daring of, 22 , 45; race, the, its best condition, 436 , 3; race, the, task of, 421 , 17; strength, to be exerted against fate, 404 , 17; things, frail support of, 328 , 32; worth, reverence for, the essence of all religions, 375 , 28 Humanism contrasted with Christianity, 42 , 56 Humanity , a common property, 524 , 22; and education, 65 , 34; as an invention, 261 , 53; as a whole, the only true man, 173 , 2; divinity of, 475 , 42; due to education, 163 , 28; grandmother and daughters of, 396 , 32; grows dearer, 402 , 48; how to elevate, 490 , 41; imitated, so abominably, 167 , 14; in deeds, 517 , 28; its designs and hopes, 206 , 5; joy of, 431 , 30; mistrust of, evil of, 151 , 46; only true principle of, 446 , 23; our goal, 163 , 32; our limit, 253 , 8; the battle of, 215 , 46; the essence of, 198 , 43; the sacred law of, 84 , 14; to be esteemed, 517 , 28; true, in the fields, 567 , 33; what to seek for, 527 , 10; who lives for, 554 , 19; without God, 338 , 20 Humble , only, to rule, 169 , 10; sanctuary of, 422 , 17 Hume and Johnson, if combined, 554 , 24 Humility , a noble, how possible, 334 , 42; and knowledge, 356 , 29; as an ornament, 432 , 33; before God, effect of, 319 , 35; idea of, 428 , 39; modest, beauty's crown, 281 , 37; the Christian doctrine of, 420 , 16; too much, 569 , 32; want of, 518 , 32 Humour , and pathos conjoined, 547 , 33; contrasted with wit, 558 , 3; essence of, 425 , 41; enough of a kind, 262 , 26; good, effect of, on weak spirits, 118 , 18; men of, men of genius, 276 , 6 true, 231 , 16; true, defined, 500 , 8-10 Hunger , a teacher, 259 , 2; 285 , 39; best sauce, 180 , 6; effect of, on temper, 101 , 30 Hurry , effect of, 104 , 48, 50; evil of, 536 , 6; man in a, Whately's advice to, 441 , 16; sign of incompetency, 553 , 22 Hurting and healing, 513 , 8 Husband , and wife, qualities of, 190 , 45; and wife, as economists, 492 , 19; the hen-pecked, and the tyrant wife, Burns' anathema on, 52 , 1 Husbandman , and his labours, 436 , 6; happiness of, 320 , 27; unselfish labour of, 17 , 29; Virgil of, 371 , 19 Husbandry , good, good divinity, 129 , 34 Huss , John, at the stake, 322 , 3 Hymen contrasted with war, 518 , 38 Hymn-book not a panacea, 467 , 14 Hypocrisy , homage to virtue, 223 , 32; intolerable, 468 , 29; in managing another, 93 , 47; where it begins, 91 , 44 Hypocrite , Bishop Hall on, 436 , 7; Burns' aversion to, 127 , 10; worse than open sinner, 29 , 47 Hypocrites , Satan's dupes, 174 , 1 Hypotheses , lullabies, 164 , 27; repudiated by Newton, 164 , 25 Hypothesis , power of a good stout, 122 , 5 Hyssop in chink of wall, raison d'être of, 555 , 4 {pg 607} I Icicle , image of chastity, 40 , 37, 39 Idea , a single, devotion to, 168 , 37; a single, possession by, deprecated, 169 , 18; an idle or distracting, evil of, 110 , 18; an infinite religious, power of, 421 , 38; and fact compared, 464 , 28; devotion to an, 379 , 7; fixed, danger of, 5 , 47; manifestation of, as beautiful, fleeting, 65 , 28; men possessed with an, 276 , 18; new, hard to instil, 491 , 11; power of an, 186 , 34; risk of sacrificing all to, 289 , 37; superior worth of, 538 , 33; the, and its manifestations, 65 , 5; the, that is once spoken no longer ours, 436 , 8; to be acted on, if it cannot be uttered, 217 , 47 Ideal , accompaniments of, 559 , 6; better than actual, 91 , 55; 92 , 9; attained, a low one, 149 , 45; describable only when conceived as real, 448 , 40; every one has his, 26 , 58; from duty, 116 , 31; in actual, 415 , 33; now insisted on, not natural, 112 , 32; ousted by the real, 415 , 28; pursuing one's own, 173 , 29; the, an illusory vision, 72 , 40; the, for every one, and how to realise it, 124 , 7; to grow in the real, 436 , 9 Idealist , the, and his body, 315 , 23 Ideals , extinct, 65 , 4; our, defined, 338 , 21 Ideas , ancient, entertainment by moderns of, 174 , 9; change of, pleasure in, 315 , 43; confining, controlling power of, 524 , 31; delusive, prevalence of, 58 , 10; hard to discern, 391 , 26; having, and thinking, compared, 493 , 9; how realisable, 302 , 34; like pieces of money, 207 , 34; made flesh, 399 , 21; mistaken, the stupefying and pauperising effect of, 201 , 35;
— 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.

The abdominal cavity being very frequently the seat of dropsical effusion, when this takes place to any great extent, despite the continued and free use of the medicinal diuretic and the hydragogue cathartic, the surgeon is required to make an opening with the instrumental hydragogue--viz., the trocar and cannula.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

The whole jury, as a jury of dogs empannelled to try the deer.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

For Lilith was forerunner of the mediæval mothers weeping for their children; her voice of perpetual lamentation at the cruel fate allotted her by the combined tyranny of God and man was heard on every sighing wind; and she was the richly dressed bride of the Prince of Devils, ever seeking to tempt youth.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

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— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

Now, in the said establishment, our beau had few friends; the men, girls, and boys were "down" upon him; the men, because of his dandyism; the females hated him, because Charley stuck his long nose up at "shop girls," and wouldn't no more notice them in the streets, than if they were chimney sweepers or decayed esculents!
— from The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

I remember I been a little child in de bed listenin on en I hear my aunt come in one day en say, 'Ma, I hear boss talkin bout dey gwine free de niggers.'
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration

After having passed Frobisher's Strait, he sighted the land of Desolation of Davis, entered the strait which has received his name, and speedily penetrated into a wide bay, the entire western coast of which he examined until the beginning of September.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World by Jules Verne

A. Worry, fear, resentment, discontent, and other depressing emotions.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson

The truth rather is that He absolutely ignores the class distinctions, regarding the mingled mass of human beings, rich and poor, oppressor and oppressed, as on a plane of dead equality, and then distinguishing between them on a totally different principle,—on a moral, a spiritual principle; and, if there is any preference, it is on the ground of certain valuable moral effects which poverty sometimes produces that He takes the poor into His peculiar and tender care, honouring them with so close a friendship that service to them becomes service to Him.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs by Robert F. (Robert Forman) Horton

As we have said the revision usually takes place by means of a convention of delegates elected for that purpose by the people.
— from Citizenship: A Manual for Voters by Emma Guy Cromwell

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— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney

The furnaces in use up to that time were small square walled-in structures only 3 or 4 feet high, and their effect would not greatly exceed that of a smith’s forge: but as improved blowing apparatus gave more power, they soon became enlarged into oval or round brick towers from 10 to 15 feet high, and they, like the small furnaces, could be made to yield either smith iron or steel by modifying the charge and the manner of applying the blast; while furnaces of dimensions exceeding a certain limit could no longer be trusted 41 to turn out malleable metal, but they produced instead the cruder substance we call white pig iron, and this requires much subsequent treatment before it is converted into malleable or “merchant iron.”
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge