Roland at statue of, 321 , 12; no such thing as, 474 , 30; of ancient date, 226 , 6; opening of, 27 , 10; passion for, 235 , 10; political, where only found, 352 , 12; possibility of, 440 , 37; safeguard of, 77 , 12; spirit of, Burke's deference to, 288 , 20; the first to strive for, 324 , 18; the only valuable, 446 , 8; the true, of a man, 458 , 49; tree of, how it grows, 458 , 26; true and false, 500 , 16; defined, 471 , 13; turbulent, versus quiet slavery, 261 , 24; under a pious king, 100 , 34; value of, 436 , 3; when once lost, 526 , 1; without deserving it, 454 , 13 Libraries , large, by whom not needed, 451 , 33 Library , a witness against its owner, 450 , 22; browsing in, 167 , 48; circulating, 3 , 12; enough, 271 , 36; luxury of revelling in, 148 , 13 Licence , an enemy to liberty, 245 , 22 Licentiousness , after reformation, 6 , 67 Lie , a double-distilled, 35 , 28; a flattering, contrasted with a bitter truth, 529 , 14; a half true, 8 , 16, 29; a, like a snowball, 8 , 14; a, sure to be unmasked, 27 , 49; a, to be crushed, 8 , 28; a, uncalled for, 53 , 18; deformity of, 315 , 42; essence of, 425 , 30; inexcusable, 314 , 4; one, in the heart, evil of, 28 , 56; task involved in telling, 152 , 26; what it wants, 457 , 17 Lies , abhorrent to nature, 290 , 20; all, will be dishonoured some day, 302 , 45; and the belief of them, 473 , 15; destroyer of, our gratitude to, 206 , 15; doomed to vanish, 506 , 10; establishing one's self on, 475 , 22; great, great as great truths, 133 , 47; how to overcome, 240 , 16; man born enemy of, 262 , 17; respect implied in telling, of one, 533 , 4; scorned by the upright, 46 , 32; self-productive, 332 , 46, 47; that ruin humanity, Ruskin on, 206 , 15; tolerance of, effect of, 548 , 9; white, lead to black, 550 , 33 Life , a bark against the tide, 242 , 14; a battle and a march, 263 , 10; a becoming, 462 , 14; a blessed, 470 , 3; a blossoming and a withering, 62 , 16; a chamber being frescoed with colours, 339 , 39; a conscious half, impossible, 303 , 16; a constant want, 163 , 23; a faint link between us and our hereafter, 29 , 62; a galling load, 321 , 15; a good, time enough for, 32 , 30; a greeting and a parting, 265 , 36; a happy and an unhappy, equalised, 390 , 21; a heroic, 434 , 37; a higher, how to earn, 522 , 25; a law of, 443 , 9; as led, a riddle, 538 , 20; a little gleam of time, 332 , 48; a loathed, compared with death, 461 , 45; a long sigh, 320 , 15; a long, the secret of, 568 , 1; a merry, how to live, 556 , 31; a mistake about, 409 , 19; a mystery, 547 , 26; a new, beginning of, 526 , 3; a new, with every budding bosom, 109 , 32; a, not worth living, 166 , 19; a peaceful, how to ensure, 492 , 42; a progress, 266 , 41; a pure and true, how to attain, 384 , 38; {pg 614} a quiet, specific for, 275 , 34; a reality, and all one has, 481 , 13; a really long, 413 , 38; a rule in, 212 , 7; 311 , 2; a satisfied, 380 , 61; a school, 310 , 36; a sign of, 183 , 31; a simple, benefit of, 286 , 27; a state of endurance, 163 , 24; a steady self-control, 266 , 45; a stern reality, 266 , 46; a short, advantage of, 453 , 25; a useless, 23 , 45; a voyage under sealed orders, 284 , 19; a well-written, rare, 24 , 55; a wise, 516 , 53; according to nature or opinion, 389 , 46; ascent of green mountain of, 266 , 3; advancing in, 144 , 48; aim of, 415 , 46; all a cheat, 543 , 41; all, as death, 399 , 46; always a hope, 527 , 22; amid doubt, 538 , 2; among men, 16 , 53; among men, breaking or hardening, 177 , 4; an abortive, Young on the course of, 22 , 15; an ever-vanishing present, 266 , 44; an obscure, 311 , 4; and art, difference of, 84 , 41; and death, 464 , 4; and death, a contrast, 329 , 32; and death according to law, 94 , 42; and death, not complete, 488 , 31; and time, 485 , 11; apart from world, 144 , 30; as a study, interesting, 350 , 6; at all, a miracle, 403 , 3; at beginning and end, 467 , 7; at different ages, 22 , 16; awful and wonderful, 55 , 47; bartered away, 522 , 30; based on time, 339 , 40; best and safest course of, 449 , 37; between duty and desire, 439 , 18; bodying forth of the invisible, 266 , 11; Bolingbroke on, 476 , 32; book of, interpreter of, 538 , 4; brevity of, 262 , 32; brighter the longer, 249 , 35; Burns' apostrophe to, 335 , 53; by medical prescription, 363 , 42; Calderon on, 362 , 33; charms of, that we never knew, 320 , 14; cheap, and bread dear, 320 , 30; Christian, Pascal on, 241 , 21; compared with hope, 228 , 14; complaints of, unjust, 545 , 4; complete from the first, 26 , 57; condensing lesson of, in pointed sentence, 448 , 39; condition of art of, 395 , 38; corner-stone of body, 421 , 36; daily, harvest of, 458 , 45; daily, instructiveness of, 52 , 33; defined, 434 , 40; 536, 26 , 27; dependent on "No," 300, 37; dependent upon death, 403 , 14; described, 537 , 1; detachment from, gradual, 265 , 6; drama of, spectators of, 191 , 39; dreary, its cause, 537 , 37; each man's, dark to him, 404 , 53; elaborate preparation for, folly of, 494 , 20; epitome of many a man's, 292 , 46; essential furniture of, whence imported, 231 , 51; elements of a complete, 221 , 9; evanescence of, 537 , 25; every condition in, value of, 212 , 15; every period, its prejudices and temptations, 93 , 44, 45; every time of, has its care and burden, 327 , 41; everywhere romantic, 90 , 55; experience of, Burns', 554 , 44; farewell of a Greek to, 210 , 12; fateful stages in, 147 , 12; first lesson of, 428 , 24, 25; first, lived well, 413 , 45; folly of wasting, 154 , 16; fondness and carelessness of, 475 , 41; for action, 3 , 51; for a single day, 363 , 14; fraction of, how to increase, 429 , 23; fresh only from the soul, 84 , 42; full of stumbling-blocks, 64 , 21; gift and ministry of, contrasted, 493 , 16; glorious, crowded hour of, 400 , 24; God's highest gift, 434 , 40; golden moments in, lost, 430 , 34; great art of, 493 , 24; great moments of, but moments, 431 , 29; greatest ornament of an illustrious, 432 , 33; greed of, 516 , 22; half wasted, 457 , 11; hampered by itself, 3 , 8; high, people in, 187 , 26; highest maxims of, to be respected, 333 , 17; his, was gentle, 157 , 5; how man spends, 265 , 40; here only once, 264 , 36; how rendered miserable, 227 , 13; how rounded off, 522 , 18; how ruled, 201 , 48; how shaped, 548 , 21; how to achieve, 567 , 8, 9; how to extend, 14 , 7; how to husband and not waste, 526 , 37; how to know, 493 , 35; how to make sweet, 173 , 17; how to quit, 179 , 32; how to take a, 567 , 30; how to write a worthy, 8 , 30; how we take, main point, 125 , 14; ignorance of, 441 , 4; in, no present, 187 , 45; in the morning of youth, 321 , 14; in the present, a secret, 20 , 54; in the straitest circumstances, if wise and loyal-hearted, 160 , 53; in the world, and beyond, 524 , 5; inevitable condition of, 562 , 43; inner genial, effect of kindling, 68 , 3; instinct to protect and cherish, 434 , 40; its autumn and spring, 528 , 15; its healthfulness, 460 , 6; its joys and sorrows, Browning on, 141 , 41; known to few, 79 , 17; laughing at and grinning at, 203 , 8; learning from, 448 , 39; length of, effect of, 439 , 32, 33; like travelling, 288 , 12; long, desire of, 91 , 51; long, together, suggestiveness of, 496 , 24; longer than misfortune, 32 , 34; longest, shortness of, 439 , 36; loom of, and patterns it weaves, 439 , 40; lost in getting a living, 473 , 28; lost, irretrievable, 80 , 6; lottery of, 418 , 33; made strait on purpose, 404 , 39; made up of deception and art, 45 , 56; main thing regarding, 310 , 31; man's, a kind of beast-godhood, 535 , 35; memory of a well-spent, 32 , 32; mode of, seldom our own choosing, 467 , 2; moments of, fatal or fated, 403 , 25; more significant than words, 85 , 21; more than breathing, 161 , 12; more than meat, 438 , 48; more than meat and clothing, 409 , 25; mostly from hand to mouth, 105 , 11; never stainless, 302 , 33; no dream, 338 , 25; no fraction of, to be sold, 484 , 3; no longer on old lines, 230 , 17; no pastime, 526 , 26; no, without perplexity, 395 , 35; not to be bartered, 272 , 25; not judged, before death, 214 , 9; not to be trifled with, 57 , 5; nobility of, 445 , 2; noble, eternal in its action, 93 , 3; nothing that has, perfect, 316 , 42; obscure, not therefore worthless, 289 , 26; of man, collective, 205 , 19; of poor and rich, small difference between, 448 , 28; on moderate means, 182 , 2; one's own, sacred, 75 , 19; only a hope, 317 , 14; ordained law of, 206 , 22;
— 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.

All the philosophers, with a pedantic and ridiculous seriousness, demanded of themselves something very much higher, more pretentious, and ceremonious, when they concerned themselves with morality as a science: they wanted to GIVE A BASIC to morality—and every philosopher hitherto has believed that he has given it a basis; morality itself, however, has been regarded as something "given."
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia! resurrexit sicut dixit; alleluia!’
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

“Well, nobody knows; it was probably a revelation sent down by the gods.”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

"Holding these views, he could not produce a report sufficiently decisive in its acceptance of the methods favoured by the majority of his colleagues.
— from The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Cautioning these sleuths still to shadow [301] this pair and report, Sir Donald and Charles join Esther, who, with the sleeping Bessie in her arms, has been awaiting their return.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton

Having been utterly ruined, at seventy years of age, by a relative, he left England, was absent two or three years in a foreign country, during which time he made in business some fifty thousand pounds, and, returning, settled down in England.
— from The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

At the same time, Pike and Robinson started, determined not to return at all unless they could bring back meat.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt

Therefore, Prue, I say to my wife, who has, by this time, fallen as soundly asleep as if I had been preaching a real sermon, do not let Mrs. Mudge feel hurt, because I gaze so long and earnestly upon the portrait of the fair Lady Sculpin, and, lost in dreams, mingle in a society which distance and poetry immortalize.
— from Prue and I by George William Curtis

First comes the air-mail driver; he is in supreme control; and with him is a mechanic, a highly skilled man, whose task it is to tend the motors and see that they, and all the other working parts, are running smoothly during the hours that the machine is in flight.
— from The Aeroplane by Claude Grahame-White

[attacking an enemy unexpectedly or lying in wait for him on the road and attacking him] passenger on the king's highway]; fyrding [action regarding the military array or land force of the whole country]; flymenfyrm [the reception or relief of a fugitive or outlaw]; premeditated assault; robbery; stretbreche [destroying a road by closing it off or diverting it or digging it up]; unlawful appropriation of the king's land or money; treasure-trove; wreck of the sea; things cast up by the sea; rape; abduction; forests; the reliefs of barons; fighting in the king's dwelling or household; breach of the peace in the king's troop; failure to perform burgbot
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

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— from Lippincott's Horn-Ashbaugh Speller For Grades One to Eight by Ernest J. (Ernest James) Ashbaugh

There was a dark figure that darted hastily up the front steps, apparently left a package and ran swiftly down the street and out of sight.
— from Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters by Isabel Anderson