Should our feeble efforts raise your thoughts higher, and enable you to contemplate Him with the eye of faith in the light of reason, and Divine revelation; to know more of His greatness and power, and your entire dependence upon Him for all temporal blessings in life; for the only consolation you can have in the dying hour, and as your only hope for the future, and should such contemplation draw your mind and heart to Him in holy love, and godly fear, we shall be well rewarded for our efforts.
— from The Spirit of God as Fire; the Globe Within the Sun Our Heaven by D. Mortimore

You see magical things taking place about you every day, and [114] every day there are more of them, to set you thinking and wondering.
— from A-B-C of Vegetable Gardening by Eben E. (Eben Eugene) Rexford

He afterwards remained with him till his troubles, that he was put from his place aboute y e death of y e Queene of Scots; and some good time after, doeing him manie faithfull offices of servise in y e time of his troubles.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

would color de cloth just as pretty as you ever did see."
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

When comrades are perishing about you every day, when your milestones are the bodies of the frozen dead, the ultimate terror becomes the lesser thing and all the more brutal instincts are awakened.
— from The Great White Army by Max Pemberton

You make this accusation that Dancy stole your money in my house on no proof—no proof; and you expect Dancy's friends to treat you as if you were a gentleman!
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Kant's famous successors in the German philosophy, Fichte (1762-1814), Schelling (1775-1854), Hegel (1770-1831), and Schopenhauer (1788-1860), all received their impulse from the "critical philosophy," and yet each developed his doctrine in a relatively independent way.
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

“Every night I am quite as tired as is safe,” she wrote to Miss Irby, who had begged for a postcard, “and yet every day I have to omit half a dozen things that cry out to be done.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

I'm darned if you don't grow prettier and younger every day of your sweet life.”
— from Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney by Edna Ferber

Cicely said presently: “Are you expecting Dr. Pawley to luncheon, Mums?” “No. Stimson has enough to do as it is.
— from Whitewash by Horace Annesley Vachell