And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

People as retiring, as devoid of self-confidence as you are——" "What about your own self-confidence?" interrupted Arkady.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The day foretold by this holy train of Old Testament prophets was spoken of as a day of “peace and rest” ; a day of “praise and salvation” ; a day of “refining” ; a day when a “cleansing fountain shall be opened” ; a day when “scarlet stains shall be made white as snow” ; a day when “the lame man shall leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing,” and the deaf ears shall hear, and blind eyes be made to see; a day when the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come unto Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; a day when “the desert shall blossom as the rose” ; a day when the wolf and the lamb shall dwell together; a day when the “Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious.”
— from The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

Visions of some sweet face with its pouting and ready lips will arise, constantly keeping the past ever present, and recalling a day one would fain forget.
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

So in France systems political and moral have started from one point and reached another diametrically opposed; and men have expressed one kind of opinion and acted on another.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

And so also of the objects carried and of the passers-by; to the prisoners the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. { 68} "And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error.
— from The Problem of Truth by Herbert Wildon Carr

His thirty-day voyage to France in 1776 proved a rough and debilitating one to him at his advanced age, but Captain Wickes was not only able to keep his illustrious passenger out of the Tower, but to snatch up two English prizes on his way over.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

At its fortnightly meetings, papers are read and discussed on various matters relating to the hobby.
— from Stamp Collecting as a Pastime by Edward J. (Edward James) Nankivell

The change has been brought about in consequence of myself, and those who have acted with me, having openly avowed our determination to endeavour to obtain for the people equal political rights, which will lead to equal justice; to procure for every sane adult a vote, an equal share in the representative branch of the government, in the Commons' House of Parliament; to procure for every man that which the constitution says he is entitled to, and that which the law presumes he has, namely, a share in choosing those Members of the People's, or Commons' House of Parliament; who have a third share in making those laws , by which the lives, the liberties, and the property of the people are regulated and disposed of.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Henry Hunt

The degeneration of the frail stock of the latter worked with a rapidity which became the greater as they married; and as the same distribution into two-thirds and one-third existed in the case of their children, these younger sons of younger sons soon came to dividing a pigeon, a rabbit, a duck or two, and a hound, although they did not cease to be "high knights and mighty lords" of a dove-cote, a toad-pool and a rabbit-warren.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Speculative theology is an intoxicated philosophy; it is time to become sober, and to recognize that philosophy and religion are diametrically opposed to each other, that they are related to each other as health to disease, as thought to phantasy.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg