Repentance is not dated.
— 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.

Of the multitudes who perished by the inquisition throughout the world, no authentic record is now discoverable.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The faculty for remembering is not diminished 45 in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.
— 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.

The last are as follow: “For September had reached its nineteenth day, when his spirit went forth from the prison-bars of the flesh.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

That having been often displeased with Rusticus, I never did him anything for which afterwards I had occasion to repent.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

O Adam, One Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life; But more refined, more spiritous, and pure, As nearer to him placed, or nearer tending Each in their several active spheres assigned, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

I give thanks that, having often been displeased with Rusticus, I never did anything to him which afterwards I might have had occasion to repent; that, though my mother was destined to die young, she lived with me all her latter years; that, as often as I inclined to succour any who were either poor or had fallen into some distress, I was never answered that there was not ready money enough to do it, and that I myself never had need of the like succour from another.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

And this latter must generally be a representation, not an actual feeling: for though we can sometimes experience two or perhaps more pleasures at once, we are rarely in such cases able to compare them satisfactorily: for either the causes of the two mutually interfere, so that neither reaches its normal degree of intensity; or, more often, the two blend into one state of pleasant consciousness the elements of which we cannot estimate separately.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The word rummeis is no doubt of Romance origin, an inchoative in -sco from Lat.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The examination, however, resulted in no discovery.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

But the old world moves faster than it did in former days, and before the end of the nineteenth century it is probable that a gentlewoman will be recognised in spite of her having entered on commercial pursuits, especially as we are growing accustomed to see scions of our noblest families on our Stock Exchange and in tea-merchants’ houses; one Peer of the realm is now doing an extensive business in coals, and another is a cab proprietor.’
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

Hence the slave-holding region is now divided into the "slave-breeding," and "slave-consuming" States.
— from A Visit to the United States in 1841 by Joseph Sturge

says, "the reply is not doubtful for a moment; without question, the mode of origin, and the early stages of the development of man, are identical with those of the animals immediately below him in the scale: without a doubt in these respects, he is far nearer to apes than the apes are to the dog." RUDIMENTS.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

Respectabilities and shams have a fatal facility for living on the community anyhow, and there is no more reason in not doing these things on their account than there would be in burning a house down to get rid of cockroaches and rats.
— from Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

So the investigation began, but it resulted in no definite knowledge concerning the character of the prize.
— from The Guardsman by Homer Greene

In plantations, again, you can adopt such a system of growing nurses that some return for the outlay will not be many years in commencing, and so profit by way of rent is not delayed as in hedge-row growth.
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

They have now reprinted it with remarks, induced, no doubt, by the striking situation of affairs upon the Continent.
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

After breakfast that morning, Joe Davis cum down to my house, and says he— "'Bradly's old roan is nearly dead—she's cut all to pieces, and can scarcely move.'
— from The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. by Various

We recognize, if not directly then by hearsay, the old world of London life which he brings out of the shades and sets tenderly and solidly before us as if his last gift were the most perfect and precious of the treasures hoarded in ‘the scented chest of our savings.’”
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

But since this relationship is not discriminated, they fall into the category [Pg 411] of my sons and daughters.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan