“It is not for me to judge you, Captain Nemo,” answered Cyrus Harding, “at any rate as regards your past life.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

" If you wish to wake up feeling refreshed and renewed, you simply must retire in a happy, forgiving, cheerful mood.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

...” “All right, all right, you can tell us afterwards,” said Princess Mary, flushing.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

May you prosper with the ransom and reach your own land in safety, seeing that you have suffered me to live and to look upon the light of the sun.
— from The Iliad by Homer

And that you are yet alive is due to God, who spares you that you may be admonished to repent and reform your lives.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Reason and riper years tempered his warmth; and from the study of wisdom, he retained what is most difficult to compass,—moderation. 5.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

allí su correspondiente castillo señorial, que yo pudiera describir piedra por piedra.... Mas no se trata aquí de castillos, ni de duques, sino de los célebres campos que rodean a Rota y de un humildísimo hortelano, 10 a quien llamaremos el tío Buscabeatas , [67-5] aunque no era éste
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

‘Come, gentle Nora,’ says the goddess Flora, ‘My dearest creature, take my advice, There is a poet, full well you know it, Who spends his lifetime in heavy sighs,— Young Redmond Barry, ‘tis him you’ll marry, If rhyme and raisin you’d choose likewise.’
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

He called out to him, "Come in, dear brother, rest and refresh yourself with a cup of wine."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

As your case is, it is my opinion that you should leave off human remedies, and resign yourself entirely to the providence of GOD: perhaps He stays only for that resignation and a perfect trust in Him to cure you.
— from The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life by Lawrence, of the Resurrection, Brother

Rum, ah, rum, you’re a lovely creature; they haven’t never done you justice.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 15 by Robert Louis Stevenson

One thing was fitting—dying in your sleep— A touch of Nature, Colonel, you who loved And were beloved of Nature, felt her hand Upon your brow at last to give to you A bit of sleep, and after sleep perhaps Rest and rejuvenation; you will wake To newer labors, fresher victories
— from Starved Rock by Edgar Lee Masters

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be destroyed with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

On the other hand, however, I would have you to consider whether you could not, at a perceptibly less cost, attain the same results as regards your future in the diplomatic profession.
— from Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland

I swear to you, my darling, that all my life I will be true to you, will be faithful, will respect and reverence you who are my wife.
— from Lady into Fox by David Garnett

If you were going to run a race, you would first put down all the parcels you might have been carrying.
— from Morning Bells; Or, Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by Frances Ridley Havergal

to convert and redeem and renew you, Will the brief form have sufficed, that a Pope has set up on the apex Of the Egyptian stone that o'ertops you the Christian symbol?
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various