In the long run, its value is measured by whether it supplies a mere physical excitation to act in the way desired by the adult or whether it leads the child "to think"—that is, to reflect upon his acts and impregnate them with aims.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

"I am, I confess, an enemy to trying to like a person, as I have rarely seen such a mental process end in happiness to either party.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Portend the deeds to come:—but he whose nod Has tumbled feebler despots from their sway, A moment pauseth ere he lifts the rod; A little moment deigneth to delay: Soon will his legions sweep through these the way; The West must own the Scourger of the world.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Thought is the strongest and most persistently exercised function in all stages of life—and also in every act of perception or apparent experience!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This first master of mine, as I may call him, was a smith, and my principal employment was working his bellows, which were the same kind as I had seen in my vicinity.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

There is no period, accordingly, in which authority and subordination are more perfectly established.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

BLEST pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy, Sphear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers, Wed your divine sounds, and mixt power employ Dead things with inbreath'd sense able to pierce, And to our high-rais'd phantasie present, That undisturbed Song of pure content, Ay sung before the saphire-colour'd throne To him that sits theron With Saintly shout, and solemn Jubily, Where the bright Seraphim in burning row 10 Their loud up-lifted Angel trumpets blow, And the Cherubick host in thousand quires Touch their immortal Harps of golden wires, With those just Spirits that wear victorious Palms, Hymns devout and holy Psalms Singing everlastingly; That we on Earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did, till disproportion'd sin Jarr'd against natures chime, and with harsh din 20 The fair musick that all creatures made To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'd In perfect Diapason, whilst they stood In first obedience, and their state of good.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

‘You think it justifiable, do you, Copperfield, you who pride yourself so much on your honour and all the rest of it, to sneak about my place, eaves-dropping with my clerk?
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

For any kind of Medicine , The Commonwealth-Kingdom I'd say, Has mighty reason for to pray That still Arabia may produce Enough of Berry for it's use: For't has such strange magnetick force, That it draws after't great concourse Of all degrees of persons, even From high to low, from morn till even; Especially the sober Party , And News-mongers do drink't most hearty Here you'r not thrust into a Box As Taverns do to catch the Fox , But as from th' top of Pauls high steeple, Th' whole City's view'd, even so all people
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Muslim 75% (predominantly Sunni), Jewish 17%, Christian and other 8% Languages: Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers and many Palestinians), English (widely understood)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The difference in this respect, between a single country and many, is easily accounted for, by considering the difficulty with which capital moves from one country to another, to seek a more profitable employment, and the activity with which it invariably passes from one province to another in the same country.
— from On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

Et inueniet omnes tenentes suos ad magnam precariam episcopi in autumpno ad cibum domini.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

In doing this he lay upon his back, and resting his feet and shoulders against some support, his whole body formed an arch, as we shall afterwards more particularly explain.
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster

Nay, what is more significant, and more puzzling, Eustace has never given me a clue to whether he knew of the arrangements, the life, we should find here; before our arrival, he had never mentioned that the castle was, to all intents and purposes, in the hands of his kinsmen; nor has he dropped a word in explanation of so extraordinary a circumstance.
— from Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Vernon Lee

The "creation" of mathematics spoken of by Ficino, Cardano and others signified a mental production entirely free from material presuppositions, and for that reason not less true but true in a higher sense.
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

Not since the return from their honeymoon had Minnie failed to be at home to greet her husband on his arrival from business, and Morris was about to telephone a general alarm to police headquarters when the doorbell rang sharply and Mrs. Perlmutter entered.
— from Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass