Individuals, classes, nations, have been extremely unlike one another: they have struck out a great variety of paths, each leading to something valuable; and although at every period those who travelled in different paths have been intolerant of one another, and each would have thought it an excellent thing if all the rest could have been compelled to travel his road, their attempts to thwart each other's development have rarely had any permanent success, and each has in time endured to receive the good which the others have offered.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

For my unworthy sake, for mine, Ráma, the glory of his line, Who bridged his way across the main, Is basely in a puddle slain; And I, the graceless wife he wed, Have brought this ruin on his head.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

I rose to go—I bid him good-night a little sadly.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

90 The philosophers of antiquity were divided in their opinions respecting the great question, whether the active properties of material bodies, which produce the phænomena of nature, are inherent in them, and necessarily attached to them, or whether they are bestowed upon them by some superior power or being.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

And at or in connection with that judgment the following events shall come to pass, as we have learned: Elias the Tishbite shall come; the Jews shall believe; Antichrist shall persecute; Christ shall judge; the dead shall rise; the good and the wicked shall be separated; the world shall be burned and renewed.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I reached the Grange before sunset, and knocked for admittance; but the family had retreated into the back premises, I judged, by one thin, blue wreath, curling from the kitchen chimney, and they did not hear.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the song then so popular:— “En voyant Lafayette, “On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme répète:— The gendarme repeats:— Sauvons nous!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Thus shall we live dear to one another and to the gods, both while remaining here and when, like D conquerors in the games who go round to gather gifts, we receive our reward.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

When, at length, the work was all done, and they were ready to go home, the farmer put this box into the wagon, so that it stood up in the middle, leaving a considerable space before and behind it.
— from Rollo at Work by Jacob Abbott

A knight, with the cross on his shoulder, gorgeously clad, covered with trophies, beaming with glory won in a hundred combats; a subtile dialectician, disputing on the system of the Nominalists, and urging his subtilely devised abstractions till he becomes unintelligible;—these are certainly two characters very dissimilar, and yet they exist together in the same society; both have their prestige, receive the greatest homage, and are followed by enthusiastic admirers.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

Nevertheless, it seemed worth while to find out just what the connection was between the commercial exhibition at which Sanatogen received the grand prize and the Seventeenth International Congress of Medicine.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

Thinking thus, he resolved to go away.
— from Theo: A Sprightly Love Story by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The mad cry of Aeschines docs not obscure the fame of Demosthenes; and in spite of Lucian, Caesar is, and will ever remain, the greatest man the world has ever produced.
— from Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Here were one hundred miserably sick and dying men, forced upon us before we had been an hour on board; and tug after tug swarming round the great ship, before we had a nail out of a box, and when there were but ten pounds of Indian meal and two spoons to feed them with.
— from Hospital Transports A memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer of 1862 by Frederick Law Olmsted

Be ready to go to Dr. Randall’s.”
— from Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Four persons, with Home himself, reached the ground in safety.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

He urges them rather to go shooting in the jungles or in Kashmir.
— from Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

“And we will not return to Granite House until we have found our benefactor,” said Herbert.
— from The Secret of the Island by Jules Verne