Each pleasing recollection, each kind word, every tear from the heart which her foster-mother had wept for her, rose in her mind, and at that moment she felt as if she loved this mother the best.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Hippokratês men gar tên proteran rhêtheisan etrapeto, kath' hên hênôtai men hê ousia kai alloioutai kai sympnoun holon esti kai syrrhoun to Pg 48 Greek text sôma kai hê physis hapanta technikôs kai dikaiôs prattei dynameis echousa, kath' has hekaston tôn moriôn helkei men || 30 eph' heauto ton oikeion heautô chymon, helxan de prosphyei te panti merei tôn en hautô kai teleôs exomoioi, to de mê kratêthen en toutô mêde tên pantelê dynêthen alloiôsin te kai homoiotêta tou trephomenou
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
Even so, and just as eunuchs will never know esthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned about or defined.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno
Here is the phonogram it made, and here in England we can listen to its wailing, for the phonograph reproduces every kind of sound, high or low, whistling, coughing, sneezing, or groaning.
— from Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro
We have seen how Protagoras rejected every kind of knowledge unconnected with social culture.
— from The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alfred William Benn
But the faithless Pathan repudiated every kind of agreement, and proceeded to defend the palace and apply all that it contained to his own use.
— from The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene
"By the Union Pacific Railway!" ejaculates Kruger sternly.
— from Miss Dividends: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter
Her physiognomy represents every kind of grief, and while depicting horror her countenance does not lose one feature of its beauty.” {30} THE PONT-NEUF AND THE LOUVRE, FROM THE QUAI DES AUGUSTINS.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards
[ 5 ] O---- told me that the superstitious Catholic peasants raised every kind of difficulty and objection to his life there; it was a regular conspiracy.
— from Alone by Norman Douglas
Purchase a good farm, just as much land as you can cultivate well, and no more; don't have one surplus acre; don't do like some people, raise every kind of stock and never have anything for market; but when you raise hogs, raise nothing else for market but hogs; and raise all you can fatten—that is, all you can raise corn to make fat; and by this rule to have one or two car loads for sale every fall; you will become wealthy if you live to be old.
— from One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus
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