For not only at the discourses of a philosopher ought we, as Alcibiades said, 290 to be moved in heart and shed tears, but the true proficient in virtue, comparing his own deeds and actions with those of the good and perfect man, and grieved at the same time at the knowledge of his own deficiency, yet rejoicing in hope and desire, and full of impulses that will not let him rest, is, as Simonides says, "Like sucking foal running by side of dam," 291 being desirous all but to coalesce with the good man.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The middle sort, some for private gain, hope of ecclesiastical preferment, ( quis expedivit psittaco suum χαίρε ) popularity, base flattery, must and will believe all their paradoxes and absurd tenets, without exception, and as obstinately maintain and put in practice all their traditions and idolatrous ceremonies (for their religion is half a trade) to the death; they will defend all, the golden legend itself, with all the lies and tales in it: as that of St. George, St. Christopher, St. Winifred, St. Denis, &c. It is a wonder to see how Nic.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

the river is here about 80 yds.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Already on the right I heard arise From out the caldron a terrific roar, [513]
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

They often spent half the day side by side, rod in hand and feet dangling over the water, and a warm friendship had sprung up between the two.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"Because of the robins?" I had asked.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

—no; But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, The one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kiss'd him, While the one to depart tightly prest the one to remain in his arms.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

“In the first place, you’ve no right in here at all; you ought to be in the waiting-room, because you’re a sort of visitor—a guest, in fact—and I shall catch it for this.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To-day the large side doors were thrown open towards the sun to admit a bountiful light to the immediate spot of the shearers' operations, which was the wood threshing-floor in the centre, formed of thick oak, black with age and polished by the beating of flails for many generations, till it had grown as slippery and as rich in hue as the state-room floors of an Elizabethan mansion.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Now the most skilful physicians are those who, from their youth upwards, have combined with the knowledge of their art E the greatest experience of disease; they had better not be robust in health, and should have had all manner of diseases in their own persons.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Their canoes sailed up the beautiful waters of the Fox, whose fresh green banks and bordering trees gave promise of leading into a fair land beyond, and in a short time they had reached its head, and pushed out into the narrow channel, almost choked with wild rice, that led to the Wisconsin.
— from Children's Stories in American History by Henrietta Christian Wright

"But—but Karl," she gasped, rising in her astonishment—"not now !"
— from The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell

God, therefore, should be the most beloved object of our souls, and our hearts should rest in him alone, because he is the highest good.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

They prevailed, and Wolsey received an order through his friend Cromwell to go and reside in his archbishopric of York.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

I tumbled out quickly, to learn that "bung" meant that a large steamship had run into her, and that it was the one of which I saw the stern, the other end of her having hit the Spray .
— from Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

I saw by the alteration of the faces what an immense effect this document, which embodied the resolutions I have already explained, produced upon some of our friends.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 12 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

"Insulted pride, necessity, and revenge, forced me into its ranks, where I have served faithfully and honourably; as the high civil and military rank I have attained, together with these badges, received some of them from Napoleon's hand on the Champ de Mars, and some on the battle-fields of Holland and Italy, can amply testify.
— from Adventures of an Aide-de-Camp; or, A Campaign in Calabria, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

I spent a sleepless night wondering what would happen after my confession that I had heard from the renegade Captain Markham, and my inexplicable tears; by the time I rose I had all the results planned out, beginning with the interview with Cheneston, in which I implied my love for Walter Markham, and ending in a sort of grand finale scene with mother, in which elegance and reproaches and jasmine scent mingled, and my clothes, all I had cost, and my obvious lack of chic and charm were hurled at my head.
— from Love in a Muddle by Christine Jope-Slade

She left the Court, became a communicant, and has ever since been regular in her attendance at the Lord's table.
— from The Man with the Book; or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland