My child, my friend dies, and where he goes I feel that part of myself now is and evermore shall be:
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
On making a closer acquaintance with my completed operas and plans for new works, he declared to me that he felt it his vocation to play the part of spectator, to be my faithful helper and the interpreter of my new ideas, and, as far as in him lay, to remove entirely, and at all events to relieve me as far as possible from, all the unpleasantnesses of my official position and of my dealings with the outside world.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner
And he had mine off my neck in a moment, and tossed it to the woman.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit —All things but change, nothing perishes.
— 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.
Now mentioned only as the smallest conceivable sum of money; not in actual circulation.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
A jealous sense of my new individuality arose in me.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw
These conditions being removed, and provided they require of me nothing if any great trouble or care (for I have declared mortal war against all care), I am very ready to do every one the best service I can.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
The shark’s tooth on my necklace is a magic shark’s tooth, and I was always told that if anybody touched it without my leave they would immediately swell up or burst, but this child doesn’t swell up or burst, and that important Chief, Man-who-attends-strictly-to-his-business, who has not yet taken any notice of me at all, doesn’t seem to be afraid that she will swell up or burst.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The township of New England possesses two advantages which infallibly secure the attentive interest of mankind, namely, independence and authority.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville
The world has been deceived in that respect; and I am happy to say, there will be some little money, even when all his debts are discharged, to settle on my niece, in addition to her own fortune.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
He stood for one moment now, in a window recess with his brother-in-law, the head forester, and asked casually, while he glanced indifferently over the heads of the guests: "Who is it Prince Adelsberg has with him?
— from The Northern Light by E. Werner
And when I push my self-examination further, I see that the difference lies in this: At the [Pg 242] time I prepared our forces for violence I was thinking of myself; now, I am thinking of you.
— from The Woman Who Vowed (The Demetrian) by Ellison Harding
On a re-examination of my notes, it appeared that the united libraries were sold by Baker and Leigh.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 129, April 17, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
re has been no play of mind, no instruction, and, except for some brute utility in the prohibitions, no advance.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson
Zamora (15), ancient town of Spain, on the right bank of the Douro, 150 m. NW. of Madrid; now in a decayed state; was a flourishing place in Moorish times; contains interesting ruins; manufactures linens and woollens, and trades in wine and fruits.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
Because, an established principle of public law among the white nations of America, that while the Indians included within their limits retain all other national rights, no other white nations can become their patrons, protectors, or mediators, nor in any shape intermeddle between them and those within whose limits they are.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson
First the Captaine general, with the pilot maior, the masters, marchants and other officers, to be so knit and accorded in vnitie, loue, conformitie, and obedience in euery degree on all sides, that no dissention, variance, or contention may rise or spring betwixt them and the mariners of this companie, to the damage or hinderance of the voyage: for that dissention (by many experiences) hath ouerthrown many notable intended and likely enterprises and exploits.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt
Such strength is adventitious and accidental; it may come, it may go; it is found in one man, not in another; it does not interfere with the genuineness and perfection of the act of assent.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman
The next incident which I have to relate as bearing at all upon the question of Miss Northcott is an unpleasant one.
— from The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle
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