As for the improvement of material well-being, and its diffusion among those whose labor is a prime factor in its creation, we might grow sated with the jubilant monotony of its figures, if we did not take good care to remember, in the excellent words of the President of Harvard, that those gains, like the prosperous working of your institutions and the principles by which they are sustained, are in essence moral contributions, "being principles of reason, enterprise, courage, faith, and justice, over passion, selfishness, inertness, timidity, and distrust."
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

This emotional feat does not seem to me possible: and therefore I must admit that a man who embraces the principle of Rational Egoism cuts himself off from the special pleasure that attends this absolute sacrifice and abnegation of self.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The last one contains an old but good lesson, which cannot be too frequently and earnestly repeated:— Ego nec studium sine divite venâ Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium, alterius sic Altera poscit opem res et conjurat amicè.
— from Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain by James Kennedy

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— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

themselves the power or resisting extreme cold for a certain length of time,….
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

The radical vice of this whole theory was that it assumed the cession of political powers of legislation and government, made by the people of a State when they ratified the Constitution of the United States, to be revocable, not by a State power or right expressly contained in the instrument, but by a right resulting from the assumed nature of the Constitution as a compact between sovereign States.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

283 Bechaji, Comm. in 1 Mos. xi.; Pirke of R. Eliezer, c. xi.; Talmud, Sanhedrim, 109a; Targums, i. pp.
— from Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

In it was an entry of 1668, which ran in this wise:— “This is the portion of Rates each Chapelry and Prebend shall pay towards the repairs of the Mother Church:—
— from The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood

Alterius sic Altera poscit opem res, et conjurat amice.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

“There are two planes of visions before men,” I again heard him say, “the plane of undying love and spiritual aspirations, the efflux from the eternal light; and the plane of restless, ever changing matter, the light in which the misguided Daij-Dzins bathe.”
— from Nightmare Tales by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

279 Pirke of Rabbi Eliezer, c. xi. 280 Ibid., c. xxiv. 281 Ibid., c. xi.
— from Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould