We are admitting too much, therefore, when we compare him with Othello, for Othello's mind was perfectly free from suspicion when his temptation came to him.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Proper friendships form one of the best means for the formation of ideas and ideals, for they enable one to practise in giving expression to thought.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker; bustle.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

It is difficult to see what good the terrible practices of the initiation bring to the health which they threaten; what good the dietetic restrictions, which generally deal with perfectly clean animals, have hygienically; how sacrifices, which take place far from a house, make it more solid, etc.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Perseus fled from Pydna to Pella, his cavalry having, as one would expect, all got safe out of the action.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The size of the card of invitation varies with personal preference from four and a half to six inches in width, and from three to four and a half inches in height.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

We are arranging for the publication of the story in several prominent Canadian newspapers, and we also intend to have it printed in pamphlet form for distribution among our patrons.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

s , need of, 329 , 11 Subsistence , man's sure, 265 , 35; Mirabeau on three means of, 211 , 6 Substance , discriminated from accident, 2 , 45; for shadow, 36 , 53; my, is not here, 305 , 31; the only real, 446 , 20 Substitute in absence of the king, 21 , 9 Succeeding , best way of, 565 , 7 Success , a condition of, 5 , 39; 209 , 35; a diagnosis required for, 495 , 53; a dream, 72 , 49; a result, 159 , 33; a secret of, 271 , 57; by failure, 99 , 27; condition of, 12 , 36; conditions of, 149 , 7; Danton on the secret of, 38 , 11; desert of, thing to aim at, 488 , 27; encouragement from, 160 , 37; ever tinged with sadness, 210 , 21; failure of, reason of, 201 , 46; first essential of, 495 , 44; first secret of, 386 , 15; great secret of, 493 , 34; honoured, 89 , 10; how missed, 456 , 26; how to attain, 177 , 43; how won, 330 , 25; in need of consolation, 89 , 30; nothing succeeds like, 316 , 39; secret of, 452 , 46, 48, 49; 476 , 6; the effect of, on our judgment, 138 , 32; the greatest, 432 , 39; the parent of, 193 , 36; two ways to, 468 , 3; worldly, glare of, 469 , 36; worldly, Queen Elizabeth on, 479 , 24 Successes often disappointments, 277 , 23 Succour , angelic, 162 , 12; from above, when sure, 563 , 24 Suddenness , the shock from, 88 , 14 Suffer , to, and be strong, sublime, 219 , 52 Sufferance , badge of Jew, 111 , 8 Sufferer , the greatest, not always best, 298 , 6 Suffering , acute, of short duration, 520 , 6; compulsory, 381 , 22; contrasted with happiness, 139 , 40; effect of, on native character, 314 , 11; general, a sign of general immorality, 119 , 40; human, cause of, 267 , 31; human, root of, 134 , 39; law of, 443 , 9; necessary to being, 489 , 45; nothing singular in, 326 , 39; often in apprehension, 350 , 8; our lot, 206 , 25; protection from, 517 , 31; remembrance of, 361 , 9; sole remedy for, 111 , 9; the effect of, 335 , 9; vicarious, 428 , 24 Sufferings , another's, judging of, 202 , 32; light, test of, 244 , 33; our, tutors, 342 , 52; superiority to, 475 , 2 Sufficiency , a moderate, 27 , 55 Suffrage , universal, questionableness of, 507 , 38 Sullenness , an attribute of things, 480 , 34 Summit , of power, man at, 116 , 30; the, reached by climbing, 34 , 11 Summons , the, that arouses a man, 284 , 16 Sun , a type of Jesus, 483 , 33; and shadow it casts, 546 , 6; beautifying power of, 26 , 21; -clear, the, no arguing against, 4 , 72; down, while yet day, 155 , 3; extinction of, effect of, 415 , 10; looks on all alike, 453 , 8; never sets on my dominions, 170 , 5; not to be economically viewed, 530 , 2; on evil and good, 144 , 28; real or spiritual, condition of love for, 565 , 36; spots, vulgar judgment of, 422 , 19; splendour of brief, 89 , 29; the rising, Mirabeau to, 390 , 4; the, no liar, 397 , 13; the power of, 319 , 21; the real and the spiritual, defined, 565 , 36; the, sayings about, 456 , 16-21; there, though concealed, 89 , 35; things that love, 10 , 58; who soars too near, 552 , 34 Sunbeam , incorruptible purity of, 21 , 11 Sunlight , our dependence on, 204 , 9 Sun-setting , a bright, 520 , 19; effect of, 396 , 49 Suns that shine at night, 334 , 14 Sunshine , from, to sunless land, 161 , 15; those who bring us, 483 , 3 Superfluities , folly of pursuit of, 397 , 44 Superfluous , necessary, 235 , 18 Superior , and inferior, law of, 198 , 19; man, way of, 461 , 21; without subjection to, no rest, 125 , 6 Superiority , condition of, 554 , 9; contrasted with majority, 260 , 15; manifestation of, price of, 441 , 25; {pg 646} the art of attaining, 233 , 32; the condition of, 147 , 23 Supernatural , Horace on introduction of, into composition, 293 , 33; the, the source and goal of all things, 554 , 31; the, to a child, 315 , 44; true region of, 396 , 33 Superstition , effect of, contrasted with atheism, 21 , 32; compared with fanaticism, 101 , 40; defined, 569 , 41; effect of science on, 544 , 20; Frederick the Great on Voltaire's raid against, 555 , 29; its power over us, 456 , 25; obstinacy of, 468 , 7; rather than unbelief, 166 , 25; the basis of, 53 , 3; the worst, 465 , 33; those opposed to, 479 , 31; weakness of, 11 , 20; where sure to be found, 402 , 43 Supper , Holy, observance of, 435 , 25 Suppliants at preferment's gate, 508 , 14 Surfeit , mortality from, 286 , 17; suffering from, 19 , 58; they that, with too much, 478 , 44 Surgeon , good, qualifications of, 6 , 56; young, 212 , 48 Suspicion , a life of, 147 , 40; the evil of, 400 , 27 Suspiciou s man, a, 41 , 31 Swallow , the, wheeling, 553 , 3 Swallow-flights , short, of song, 389 , 32 Swan of Avon , sweet, 149 , 25 Swearer , the cheap, 420 , 3 Swedenborg , the mourner, 465 , 14 Sweet , and bitter, common source of, 116 , 29; no, without sweat, 302 , 23; the fate of everything, 513 , 21 Sweetness , fleeting, 88 , 41; versus asperity, 4 , 55 Swift's epitaph, 504 , 35 Sword , and pen compared, 27 , 51; and the right, 456 , 36; good, in poor scabbard, 130 , 13; leaden, in ivory scabbard, 7 , 72; striking with, 148 , 31 Swordsman , a good, 31 , 28 Sworn foe to sorrow, care, or prose, 167 , 23 Sybarite , the, and his body, 315 , 23 Symbol , new, a welcome gift, 473 , 30; the idea of a, 184 , 23 Symbolic , everything, 10 , 55 Symbols , who works merely with, defined, 152 , 48 Sympathy , and pleasure, effects of, 349 , 32; flower of life, 502 , 12; in ordinary life, rare, 385 , 34; indifference to, 316 , 24; power of, 281 , 9; 319 , 11; 390 , 40; secret of, 253 , 14; with lowest, power of, 153 , 10; with spirit of man, significance of, 548 , 46 Systems , only words, 534 , 9 T Taciturnity , commended, by Burns, 235 , 42; where to learn, 332 , 45 Tact , and perseverance, value of, 346 , 40; contrasted with talent, 409 , 48; importance of, 559 , 45 Taking out and never putting in, 4 , 43 Tale , a round, unvarnished, 251 , 28; an oft-told, 369 , 4; he cometh with a, 142 , 16; I could a, untold, 165 , 31; plainly told, 15 , 18; spoiled in telling, 307 , 23 Tale-bearer , words of, 463 , 44 Talent , a, to be guarded against, 528 , 31; all, moral, 10 , 27; and character, how formed respectively, 85 , 20; and the world, 464 , 24; as determining and determined, 2 , 57; as man's enemy, 464 , 47; compared with wealth, 136 , 42; contrasted with genius, 120 , 18, 50; 121 , 3; definition of, 481 , 41; eye for, what is involved in, 458 , 40; field open to, 194 , 4; for literature, a, 477 , 22; guide to vocation, 75 , 14; great, happiness of, 17 , 40; happiness of using, 441 , 15; mark of, 491 , 39; ordinary, with perseverance, power of, 558 , 38; the curse of, 206 , 7; versus genius, 54 , 32; a, which we cannot perfect, 29 , 66 Talents , by nature, 239 , 28; characteristic of, 382 , 14; distinguished, not therefore discreet, 69 , 44; great, often hid, 379 , 28; great (see Great talents); high, the pride of, 400 , 33; often without genius, 269 , 11 Talisman , a, acknowledged by nature, 21 , 23 Talk , filthy, 166 , 33; honourablest part of, 435 , 29; measure of, 529 , 19; the ineffectuality of, 176 , 40; unwise, harmfulness of, 509 , 11 Talkers , a consideration for, 306 , 24; an evil they suffer, 428 , 16; compared with thinkers, 33 , 8; great, 39 , 23; two sets of, 399 , 3; weaknesses of, 19 , 13 Talking , always, effect of, 479 , 19; and acting, motives of, 529 , 20; caution in regard to, 345 , 6; good, and good work, conjointly impossible, 305 , 22; great charm of, 496 , 1; and doing nothing, 491 , 19; in morals and art, 53 , 8; long, effect of, 252 , 36; much, 148 , 35, 36; not to be monopolised, 297 , 3; passion of women, 448 , 4; the rule in, 34 , 28 Tall men often empty-headed, 325 , 37 Tardiness , the evil of, 401 , 37 Tarpeian Rock, the, 227 , 29 Task , a noble, never easy, 305 , 32; one's, how to be done, 541 , 33 Taskmaster , the great, 19 , 7 Taste , defined, 381 , 28; effect of delicacy of, 57 , 48; false, defined, 536 , 11; good (see Good taste); purity of, test of, 339 , 5; sense of, its exquisiteness, 137 , 32; true, development of, 500 , 40 Tastes , pleasant, 349 , 26 Tattler , characterised, 21 , 25 Taxation , a reason for, 295 , 34; for benefit of a class, 496 , 3; in relation to liberty, 185 , 41; of posterity, for folly, 475 , 45; on mere labour and brains, 307 , 19 Taxes , self-imposed, 522 , 21; sinews of the state, 524 , 25; the heaviest, 170 , 33; to the commonwealth, 511 , 50 Teach , who should, 242 , 40 Teachable mind, mark of, 21 , 26 Teacher , a good, test of, 305 , 50; a wise, 144 , 3; an authoritative, ever a necessity, 566 , 14; and pedant contrasted, 234 , 23; business of, 492 , 50; man's best, 414 , 32; qualification of, 77 , 22; 151 , 45; the only, 454 , 38; with imperfect knowledge, 475 , 34 Teachers , our real, 231 , 51; who have boobies to deal with, Burns' pity for, 126 , 18 Teaching , a, before all, 519 , 38; false, Gen. Gordon on, 544 , 48; great art of, 493 , 33; no living by, 308 , 20; no, without inspiration, 162 , 26; rule in, 366 , 14; to be commensurate with intelligence in pupil, 203 , 46; to be successful, 353 , 35; when spiritually profitable, 307 , 24 Tear , a, for pity, 142 , 51; law that moulds, 414 , 20; merit of drying, 424 , 25; of joy, the, 456 , 44; of tender heart, no stemming, 208 , 32; the mourning, 456 , 44; witchcraft in a, 533 , 25 Tears , a debt, 406 , 50; a necessity for man, 239 , 9; causes of, 399 , 4; expression of tenderness, 282 , 16; expressiveness of, 195 , 42; joyful, oh for a bosom in which to shed, 322 , 21; lent by nature, 291 , 10; motive powers, 231 , 14; Nature's, 292 , 42; obscuring power of, 478 , 18; of penitents, 456 , 45; often a bad sign, 151 , 13; sacredness in, 470 , 25; safety-valves, 452 , 22; sometimes for show, 349 , 53; soothing power of, 87 , 27; sowing in, 479 , 49; tender, power of, 482 , 41; the cause of, 205 , 18; the channels of, 394 , 38; to be secret, 335 , 24 {pg 647} Teeth without bread, and bread without teeth, 41 , 25 Telegraph , electric, no substitute for face of a man, 425 , 1 Teleology , question of, 450 , 30 Telescope versus eye, 360 , 36 Telescopes and eyes, 98 , 21 Tell-tale , harm one, does, 332 , 20; out of school, 457 , 1 Temper , an even and cheerful, benefit of, 426 , 9; and circumstance, accord between, 143 , 29; fate, 12 , 59; the, how to treat, 198 , 39 Temperaments , our, diversity in, 339 , 25 Temperance , a physician, 227 , 37; and health, 153 , 32, 37; 260 , 36; as a virtue, 460 , 42; defined, 113 , 12; 432 , 27; in cold latitudes, 435 , 11; incompatible with love of pleasure, 303 , 5; true, a part of, 199 , 49 Tempers , unsociable, 508 , 26 Tempest , sorest, issue of, 454 , 10; the objects it attacks, 457 , 4 Temple , but one, in world, 471 , 19; no, easily reared, 565 , 40; reared on ruins of churches, 125 , 19 Temptation , a, merely fled from, 527 , 6; anxiety to avoid, a snare, 269 , 25; common, 469 , 17; effect on us of resisting, 524 , 9; enduring, blessed, 30 , 53; flight from, 117 , 11; no guard against, 306 , 26, 40; object of, 106 , 43; our desire, 525 , 18; power of victory over, 565 , 5; resisted, not known, 540 , 5; resisting, serving God, 126 , 33; to sin in loving virtue, 284 , 12; virtue unequal to overcome, 162 , 32; when under, 547 , 9 Temptations , and trials, our own, thought hardest, 91 , 50; beginning of all, 417 , 20; only skin deep, 268 , 15; teaching of, 525 , 9 Tenants , poor, in the factor's hands, Burns on, 352 , 38 Tendency , present, of things, 429 , 45 Tenderness , defeating prudence, 450 , 4; thought of, at death, 543 , 18; throne of, 75 , 49; want of, 518 , 34; weakness of, 395 , 21 Tennyson , rank as poet, 503 , 48 Term of things, God-appointed, 480 , 32 Territory , loss of, 439 , 46 Terror , a life-long, horror of, 27 , 46 Terrors , men amidst, 161 , 8; most, illusory, 284 , 39 Testament , framed with injustice, 472 , 51 Testimony , written, value of, 250 , 34 Teufelsdröckh , as a rejected man, at the centre of indifference, 111 , 14 Thanks , at all enough, 544 , 4; exchequer of poor, 89 , 46; fed on, 287 , 42 Thanksgiving , God-glorifying, 126 , 35 Theatre , and pulpit, 457 , 14; private, of great account, 262 , 5 Theft , contrasted with carelessness, 36 , 6; proscribed by Christianity, 241 , 7 Theme , a common, hard to treat freshly, 67 , 28 Theologian , experience of, 424 , 8 Theologians slain by science, 97 , 59 Theological absurdities embraced by the greatest men, 307 , 26 Theology , and philosophy, Carlyle on, 347 , 38; compared with religion, 372 , 22; false, the cure for, 422 , 26 Theorists , crotchety, 444 , 4 Theory , all, gray, 132 , 42; how to test a, 397 , 38 There , never here, 457 , 15 Thief , and anvil, 8 , 60; and opportunity, 77 , 27; saving a, 381 , 8; the greatest, 324 , 41 Thieves , and their chains, 251 , 38; little and great, how treated, 219 , 35, 36; more, than are hanged, 52 , 23 Thing , a, how defined, 21 , 35; that most needs to be done not easy, 414 , 31 Things , all, co-operative, 11 , 3; all, only halves, 75 , 25; are as regarded, 233 , 12; best at their sources, 238 , 8; how to know, 377 , 19; more, in heaven and earth, 467 , 23; often misconstrued, 33 , 16; the path of, 447 , 12; to be done decently and in order, 240 , 20; with more spirit chased, 552 , 23 Think , how to learn to, 200 , 43 Thinker , accurate, compared with accurate observer, 110 , 34; arrival of, an epoch, 186 , 32; earnest, no plagiarist, 301 , 37; fairest fortune to a, 54 , 26; great, test of, 305 , 37; peril to things caused by advent of, 545 , 35; the, and the public, 486 , 18; the light he requires, 457 , 28; the, want of, 529 , 38; to be guarded against, 29 , 73 Thinkers , and seers compared, 453 , 7; relation of, to workers, 482 , 47 Thinking , a disease, 333 , 31; abortiveness of always, 42 , 8; acting, 496 , 21; and having ideas compared, 493 , 9; and living, contrasted, 40 , 12; and saying, 344 , 42, 43; any, rather than none, 266 , 19; as wishing, 320 , 8; before writing, 241 , 2; clear, and ardent loving, 230 , 32; contrasted with doing, 50 , 42; defined, 339 , 26; effect of, 475 , 15; evil of too much, 559 , 7; faculty, Goethe's thrift of, 334 , 18; free-, a vain boast, 523 , 26; how alone possible, 205 , 14; leaving off, evil of, 427 , 17; less harm from, than speech, 269 , 6; man a terror to the devil, 21 , 39; man, fairest portion of, 493 , 4; man, not appreciated, 161 , 16; no, no wisdom, 148 , 4; often no thinking, 161 , 16; power of, 485 , 2; powerful and bold, 264 , 30; rare, 164 , 13; rule of, 274 , 45; that is none, 149 , 15; the rule of, 481 , 16; the value of, 369 , 6; too much, 152 , 32; too much, effect of, 569 , 8; what is implied in, 334 , 40 Thirty , without sense at, 364 , 5 Thomson , Littleton on the muse of, 110 , 3 Thongs , from others' leather, 32 , 45 Thorn , but a changed bud, 21 , 41; near the rose, 529 , 34 Thorns , when to trample on, 550 , 22 Thought , a good, a boon, 6 , 56; a good, power of, 75 , 7; a great, news of, 145 , 1; a monarch of, the thought of, 518 , 47; a noble, effect on us of, 547 , 27; a single, significance of, 20 , 15; a sudden, 21 , 10; a true, mark of, 414 , 17; accompaniments of, 559 , 6; and action, the worlds of, 465 , 8; and diction, propriety of, conjoined, 358 , 15; and its relation to world, 484 , 30; application of, merit in, 473 , 14; as expressed in action, 3 , 48; compared with speech, 401 , 10, 12, 13 , 16, 17; constant, unconscious overflow of, 46 , 58; contrasted with action, 61 , 25; contrasted with will, 556 , 20; dependence of, on character, 161 , 5; every, once a poem, 94 , 54; good, dependence of, on good cheer, 126 , 35; grandeur of, 162 , 11; greatness of, 311 , 51; he, as a sage, 149 , 14; high, rhythmic, 525 , 2; how made healthy, 205 , 13; how to test, 149 , 47; intense, fatiguing, 280 , 3; its activity, 315 , 10; justice of, how attained, 216 , 19; less, more talk, 282 , 11; moment to seize a, 90 , 44; mustard-seed of, its vitality, 444 , 27; nature of, 432 , 9; no, contented, 307 , 29; no curbing, 264 , 29; norm of, 253 , 18; of ages, crystallised in a moment, 89 , 38; on the sea of passion, 508 , 29; one, inclusive of all, 334 , 23; one's own, to be entirely credited, 220 , 3; one's, to be trusted, 184 , 45; original, preciousness of an, 169 , 31; parent of deed, 457 , 34; power in, 474 , 34; power of, 94 , 55; 206 , 39; prior to fact 457, 33; profound, 443 , 21; property in, 484 , 24; pure, independent of time, 486 , 46; relation of, to action, 58 , 37; revelation of its power, 451 , 20; sin of stifling, 496 , 2; slave of life, 33 , 29; tendency of, 203 , 25; that cannot be simply expressed, 542 , 29; the aim of every, at its origin, 94 , 53; the atmosphere of, 81 , 32; the analogue of, 44 , 30; the generous, 125 , 17; {pg 648} the, to him who cannot think, 421 , 18; the well of, effect of drawing from, 565 , 30; the world-process, 279 , 33; true and precise, superior to cloudy fancy, 500 , 37; undying, 26 , 16; want of, effect of, 521 , 15; when beautiful or just, 307 , 28; wicked, impress of, 555 , 34; withering, hid in smiles, 117 , 24 Thoughtfulness , a medium in, 477 , 46 Thoughtlessness , cause of evil, 33 , 5 Thoughts , appropriation and invention of, 199 , 44; audacity of human, 44 , 21; best expression of, to be respected, 467 , 1; bitter, to be suppressed, 33 , 12; dead men's, as agents, 419 , 20; divine revelations, 96 , 2; evil, our power over, 526 , 16; evil, to a good man, 173 , 1; free, but not hell-free, 119 , 16; good, how they come, 10 , 48; good, unexecuted, 130 , 21; great, from above, 306 , 45; great (see Great thoughts ); heard in heaven, 137 , 8; how to treat our, 428 , 6; in the heart of, courtesy, 156 , 30; like flowers, 207 , 36; love's heralds, 257 , 6; man's, with the stars, 263 , 39; men's (see Men's thoughts ); native soil of, 54 , 36; no rule for preserving or acquiring, 233 , 35; noble, the companionship of, 478 , 47; of little-minded people, easy to gauge, 251 , 23; of preternatural suggestion, 33 , 24; of things, influence of, 274 , 11; of unreflective minds, 508 , 22; our, and ourselves, 339 , 27; our best, 337 , 16; our fugitive, 339 , 28; our relation to our, 523 , 31; outrun us, 274 , 5; pass muster, 240 , 45; pregnant, 468 , 10; prostitution of, 182 , 22; religious, mixed with scruples, 307 , 29; roving, to be guarded, 320 , 33; sayings about, 457 , 35, 39; that look through words, 157 , 13; the only immortal, 507 , 48; thy, give no tongue, 123 , 30; unstained and evil, 508 , 28 Thraldom , a, unpitied, 147 , 24; hateful, 323 , 22 Thrall , in person, may be free, 457 , 40 Threateners , not fighters, 73 , 6; often cowards, 268 , 30 Threatening , loud, 482 , 42 Threats , hardening effect of, 496 , 28; naught, 150 , 19 Threshold , expectant, 90 , 5 Thrift , and magnificence, 359 , 12; as a revenue, 259 , 37; secret of, 218 , 25 Thriving , distrust of, 191 , 45 Throne , a, raised to, and being born to, 203 , 6; by what established, 457 , 41; something behind, 476 , 35 Thunder , nothing but, 48 , 39 Thunderbolts on innocent, 214 , 48 Thyrsus , the, bearers of, 417 , 4 Tibullus , Ovid on remains of, 209 , 51 Tide , but no gulf-stream, in affairs, 500 , 47; in the affairs of men, 470 , 35; the, to be seized, 527 , 11 Time , a new, birth of, in pain, 182 , 33; a proper, for everything, 104 , 48; a test and a revealer, 337 , 4; a waste of, 520 , 23; advices in regard to, 409 , 34, 35; ameliorating effect of, 285 , 38; an innovator, 271 , 24; and eternity, 88 , 4; and I against any two, 165 , 8; and our complaint of its shortness, 520 , 34; and the hour, 44 , 52; as a cure, 81 , 1; as counsellor, 472 , 9; as preacher, 59 , 43; beyond our power, 340 , 23; connection of, with eternity, 150 , 41; dependence of things on, 481 , 20; different relationships of men to the, 431 , 24; driving away, 479 , 40; earth-spirit at loom of, 395 , 20; effect of, on a man, 240 , 13; economised, too late, 269 , 35; enough, if well applied, 331 , 35; eternity made manifest, 265 , 2; expenditure of, 97 , 25; fleetness and tyranny of, 78 , 20; flight of, irreparable, 117 , 13; God's, and ours, 62 , 48; how it is annihilated, 542 , 30; how to baffle, 401 , 48; how to beguile, 491 , 7; how to count, 528 , 25; how to win, 260 , 38; how we get rid of, 407 , 34; ill employed, lost, 330 , 36; in relation to eternity, 482 , 6; in relation to life, 339 , 40; its evanescence, compensated, 522 , 6; its stealthy flow, 228 , 22; its unnoticed lapse, 453 , 49; killing, a labour, 466 , 6; lenient hand of, 437 , 36; man the child of, 265 , 2; man's-angel, 62 , 15; man's inheritance and seed-field, 288 , 6; mystery of, Carlyle on, 413 , 13; no, for saying all things, 87 , 31; of day, known only to wise, 108 , 46; one's distribution of, 63 , 20; 387 , 51; 388 , 1; 393 , 15; one's own, benefiting, 150 , 31; our complaint and conduct in regard to, 521 , 7; our, fixed, 339 , 29; passing of, common to all, 395 , 31; rightly seized, 63 , 20; sayings about, 235 , 19-21; 412 , 9-17; 486 , 24-53; 487 , 1-25; silence of, 317 , 3; take good note of, 300 , 23; that bears no fruit, 457 , 46; the accepted, 27 , 14; the flight of, 412 , 5; the havoc of, our exclusive contemplation of, 338 , 38; the magic of, 569 , 21; the, our treatment of, 528 , 1; the present, Emerson on, 482 , 13; the present, sayings about, 449 , 13, 14; the reality of, 205 , 27; the sun-steeds of, 456 , 22; the thought of, 481 , 15; the, to be studied, 174 , 35; the weird images of, 316 , 53; the, who wants the spirit of, 364 , 2; things done in, 192 , 1-3; to be economised, 81 , 45; to be honoured in passing, 392 , 23; to be occupied, 510 , 32; to be seized, 176 , 49; to be taken by the forelock, 158 , 20; to be valued, 85 , 41; two different attitudes to, 336 , 21; value of, 72 , 5; waste of, 432 , 10; wasted on others, 4 , 2; wasted, 269 , 30; wasted and wasting, 169 , 4;
— 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.

Having noticed that the number indicating the greatest depth was apparently in the centre of the map, I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth, notwithstanding that the middle is so nearly level, the outline of the pond far from regular, and the extreme length and breadth were got by measuring into the coves; and I said to myself, Who knows but this hint would conduct to the deepest part of the ocean as well as of a pond or puddle?
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Hal reflected upon this, and subdued his Anglo-Saxon pride, finding forgiveness for what was repulsive in these people—their barbarous, jabbering speech, their vermin-ridden homes, their bare-bottomed babies.
— from King Coal : a Novel by Upton Sinclair

"That would be but poor feedin' for them, Thady."
— from Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Artemus Ward, George Macdonald, Max Adeler, Samuel Lover, and Others by Various

As the course of Forrest's party from Fort Mueller to the telegraph line was more or less the same as that pursued by Gosse, it is unnecessary to follow the journal to its end.
— from The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Ernest Favenc

He did this, he said, to reduce the chances of friction between his men and the people; for friction might mean a spark and a spark might mean a conflagration, and that would mean another and greater Louvain.
— from Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Ian Belward suddenly called out: “For God’s sake, keep that pose for five minutes—only five!”
— from The Trespasser, Complete by Gilbert Parker

For "night-wood," we cut a dozen birch and ash poles from four to six inches across, trimmed them to the tips and dragged them to camp.
— from Woodcraft by George Washington Sears

Army rations, particularly the bean and hominy, were gradually accepted as the proper food for warriors, and the company had some hearty feeders.
— from Company G A Record of the Services of One Company of the 157th N. Y. Vols. in the War of the Rebellion from Sept. 19, 1862, to July 10, 1865 by A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow

She had told him she was Scotch, and her name said so too, though she was perfectly free from the native accent which marked her uncle’s speech so strongly.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Now, the language of every-day conversation is suffering from this infectious disease, and it becomes the duty of every Englishman who has a proper feeling for his language, to refrain from this evil himself, and to throw in its way every possible discouragement.
— from A Book About Words by G. F. (George Frederick) Graham

No one could blame the poor fellow for being excited.
— from Broken Bread, from an Evangelist's Wallet by Thomas Champness