At the end of an analytic cure the transference itself must be abolished; therefore the effect of the treatment, whether positive or negative, must be founded not upon suggestion but upon the overcoming of inner resistances, upon the inner change achieved in the patient, which the aid of suggestion has made possible.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Was it because he had been the only one left that his going seemed to leave such a huge blank—that every room seemed vacant and deserted—that the very trees on the lawn seemed to be trying to comfort each other with caresses of freshly-budding boughs for the loss of the last of the little lads who had romped under them in childhood?
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

From the whole, it may be observed that they were obliged in this time of distress to take in new burying-grounds in most of the out-parishes for laying the prodigious numbers of people which died in so short a space of time; but why care was not taken to keep those places separate from ordinary uses, that so the bodies might rest undisturbed, that I cannot answer for, and must confess I think it was wrong.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

while we dream, And know not that the King of Heaven hath doomed This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat Beyond his potent arm, to live exempt From Heaven's high jurisdiction, in new league Banded against his throne, but to remain In strictest bondage, though thus far removed, Under th' inevitable curb, reserved His captive multitude.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

To what degree such restraints upon the inland commerce of this commodity, joined to the general prohibition of exportation, must have discouraged the cultivation of countries less fertile, and less favourably circumstanced, it is not, perhaps, very easy to imagine.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It is unnecessary to observe how much both the restraints upon the interior commerce of the country, and the number of the revenue officers, must be multiplied, in order to guard the frontiers of those different provinces and districts which are subject to such different systems of taxation.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

But an thought must directly, or indirectly, by means of certain signs, relate ultimately to intuitions; consequently, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

When the reserve is formed by divisions, each division will remain under the immediate command of its respective corps commander, unless otherwise specially ordered for a particular emergency.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

This reacts upon the instructor, causing him much trouble in correcting the note-book.
— from How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Harry Dexter Kitson

While his career is entirely exceptional among the great artists of the time it is often taken for a type of the restless, rather unmoral than immoral, character that was supposed to be produced by the paganizing influence of the New Learning.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

It is all very well to remark upon their invariable cheeriness, as most writers seem to delight in doing, but it gives a hopelessly wrong impression of the hardships.
— from The Retreat from Mons By one who shared in it by Arthur Corbett-Smith

However deep the pit and heaped the clay— Like seedlings of old time Hooding a sacred rose under the ice cap of the world— Dreams will to light.
— from The Ghetto, and Other Poems by Lola Ridge

In an earlier essay I have tried to show to how great an extent the average educated man is willing to pronounce decided judgments, all of which he believes himself to have arrived at by the exercise of pure reason, upon the innumerable complex questions of the day.
— from Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War by W. (Wilfred) Trotter

The French word lune , like moon and choon , is radically une , the initial consonants being merely adjectival, and is just as sexless as our one , Scotch ane .
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley