"He not only excels in his peculiar art, but possesses vast acquirements in all other learning and science.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

L. Fortis cadere, cedere non potest —A brave man may fall, but cannot yield.
— 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.

White is under the impression that he has the better game, because he is a Pawn ahead, but that is not so.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

By this policy liberal provision is made for free grants of land to actual settlers, for general education, and for the encouragement of the industrial Arts and Agriculture; by the construction of public roads and the improvement of the internal navigable waters of the province; and by the assistance now given to an economical system of railways connecting these interior waters with the leading railroads and ports on the frontier; and not only are free grants of land given in the districts extending from the eastern to the western extremity of the Province, but one of the best of the new townships has been selected in which the Government is now making roads, and upon each lot is clearing five acres and erecting thereon a small house, which will be granted to heads of families, who, by six annual instalments, will be required to pay back to the Government the cost of these improvements—not exceeding $200, or 40 pounds sterling—when a free patent (or deed) of the land will be given, without any charge whatever, under a protective Homestead Act.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

He places a bag of gunpowder round his neck and hands him over to the civil power, saying.)
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Otherwise, she declares, ‘I will throwe thee into this pit, and breake thy neck’.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Τύπος , ου, ὁ, pr. a blow; an impress; a print, mark, of a wound inflicted, Jno. 20.25; a delineation; an image, statue, Ac. 7.43; a formula, scheme, Ro. 6.17; form, purport, Ac. 23.25; a figure, counterpart, 1 Co. 10.6; an anticipative figure, type, Ro. 5.14.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

This continent is divided, almost equally, into two vast regions, one of which is bounded on the north by the Arctic Pole, and by the two great oceans on the east and west.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

One day, among others, having purposely gone out of my way to take a nearer view of a spot that appeared delightful, I was so charmed with it, and wandered round it so often, that at length I completely lost myself, and after several hours’ useless walking, weary, fainting with hunger and thirst, I entered a peasant’s hut, which had not indeed a very promising appearance, but was the only one I could discover near me.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mahony knew steelworkers as well as politicians and businessmen, and to maintain that network of friends, even in a small town, takes time.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

"Our religion commands us to pray always, but we pray in secret, and not in public, except on Sundays."
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

The choice of grave works was not large, and she found it difficult to command her thoughts even for the perusal of titles; however, she ultimately discovered a book that promised anything but frivolity, Helmholtz’s ‘Lectures on Scientific Subjects,’ and at this she clutched.
— from In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing

It may pass away, but not a drop of its waters will be lost.
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

Sc. 2; an expression which was probably equivalent to the modern phrase, a “black sheep.”
— from The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated by James Edmund Harting

So I went to Paternoster Row' presently, and bought her one, with Mr. Creed's help, a very fine rich one, the best I did see there, and much better than she desires or expects, and sent it by Creed to Unthanke to be made against tomorrow to send by the carrier, thinking it had been but Wednesday to-day, but I found myself mistaken, and also the taylor being out of the way, it could not be done, but the stuff was sent me back at night by Creed to dispose of some other way to make, but now I shall keep it to next week.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 22: May/June 1663 by Samuel Pepys

And the twisted skeletons of those noble ships which we later saw strewn from Santiago on along the southern Cuban coast was but the fulfilment of the miserable fate he then so clearly foresaw, but which, after his unavailing pleas to the Spanish government before sailing, the staunch old admiral, with a Spaniard’s pride and bravery, would not avoid.
— from Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 2/2 Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main by Ida May Hill Starr

The one is an old cunning fox; the other with tongue and pen, tooth and nail, falls foul on the ancient orators and philosophers, and barks at them like a cur.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by François Rabelais

no less classic than a pail, a broom, and an axe.
— from Patrins To Which Is Added an Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second by Louise Imogen Guiney

In the early days of the War Congress passed a bill admitting foreign ships to American registry.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick