In childhood and youth their study, and what philosophy they learn, should be suited to their tender years: during this period while they are growing up towards manhood, the chief and special care should be given to their bodies that they may have them to use in the service of philosophy; as life advances and the intellect begins to mature, let them increase the gymnastics of the soul; but when the strength of our citizens fails and is past civil and military duties, then let them range at will and engage in no serious labour, as we intend them to live happily here, and to crown this life with a similar happiness in another.
— from The Republic by Plato

With these words he approached the goblet to his lips, took a complacent draught of the cordial, slicked his hair and, opening his bosom, out popped a locket that hung from a silk riband, that very picture which he had cherished ever since her hand had wrote therein.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

And Hipparchus the son of Pisistratus, a little before his death, dreamt that Aphrodite threw some blood on his face out of a certain phial.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

“Amynomachus and Timocrates, shall be the guardians of Epicurus, the son of Metrodorus, and of the son of Polyænus, as long as they study philosophy under, and live with, Hermarchus.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Position of Pein (App. L. 6.)
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

“I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be a little sense of life in you yet, rising out of that adhesion at the faithful, honest roots: you will never have green leaves more—never more see birds making nests and singing idyls in your boughs; the time of pleasure and love is over with you: but you are not desolate: each of you has a comrade to sympathise with him in his decay.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

While they were in sight of those at the inn, the brothers walked their horses soberly, not caring to make ill matters worse by seeming to run away from Little John, for they could not but think how it would sound in folks' ears when they heard how the brethren of Fountain Abbey scampered away from a strolling friar, like the Ugly One, when the blessed Saint Dunstan loosed his nose from the red-hot tongs where he had held it fast; but when they had crossed the crest of the hill and the inn was lost to sight, quoth the fat Brother to the thin Brother, "Brother Ambrose, had we not better mend our pace?" "Why truly, gossip," spoke up Little John, "methinks it would be well to boil our pot a little faster, for the day is passing on.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Read these romances now, with their knights and fair ladies, their perilous adventures and tender love-making, their minstrelsy and tournaments and gorgeous cavalcades,--as if humanity were on parade, and life itself were one tumultuous holiday in the open air,--and you have an epitome of the whole childish, credulous soul of the Middle Ages.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Social instincts, the strong desire to please others and get their approval, social training, the general sense of duty and of authority, apprehension of penalty, all lead to a half-hearted effort to conform, to "pay attention to the lesson," or whatever the requirement is.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The ordinary rent of land is, in many cases, owing partly, at least, to the attention and good management of the landlord.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The evils of child labor have long engaged the attention of philanthropists and lawmakers.
— from Our Changing Constitution by Charles W. (Charles Wheeler) Pierson

Nearly every one possesses a little cart, two or three diminutive ponies, a few cattle, a cottage, and garden.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842 by Pierre-Jean de Smet

In his eagerness he cannot see that the Anglicans have only a lease of our property, a lease which is rapidly expiring.”
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

João, Infante of Portugal, and Leonora, 160 .
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

A world of passion again leapt into her eyes.
— from The Hound From The North by Ridgwell Cullum

[59] When the persecution of the Spirituals of Provence was at its height, Arnaldo procured from Charles the Lame of Naples, who was also Count of Provence, a letter to the general, Gerald, which for a time put a stop to it.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

Wrought upon, and fearful, from the past, of the desperation of the Prince, she consented, formally and deliberately, to promise that she would never marry any other person; and, lastly, she was induced to return to England, and agree to become his wife, on those conditions which satisfied her own conscience, though she could have no legal claim to be the wife of the Prince.
— from Florizel's Folly by John Ashton

But there is either a reason for it, or the injustice provokes the indignation of children, long before they have learnt that in real life also virtue does not always receive its reward, while falsehood often prospers, at least for a time.
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Seth , or Set : the principle of physical, and later of moral, darkness and evil.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch

[Pg 355] "At the Cassiar diggings we found a few Chinamen working placers, but they made only a bare living, so our party, after looking over the ground, decided not to stay there.
— from Along Alaska's Great River A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska by Frederick Schwatka