Let not the sun go down upon your wrath , i.e. , let it set with the sun, or, as Ruskin suggests, let it never go down so long as the wrong is there.
— 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.

It is a considerable distance, on account of the gulfs, and of the peninsular form for the most part of the country, but the length in a straight line is not great.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Amid it all, two figures ever stand to typify that day to coming ages,—the one, a gray-haired gentleman, whose fathers had quit themselves like men, whose sons lay in nameless graves; who bowed to the evil of slavery because its abolition threatened untold ill to all; who stood at last, in the evening of life, a blighted, ruined form, with hate in his eyes;—and the other, a form hovering dark and mother-like, her awful face black with the mists of centuries, had aforetime quailed at that white master's command, had bent in love over the cradles of his sons and daughters, and closed in death the sunken eyes of his wife,—aye, too, at his behest had laid herself low to his lust, and borne a tawny man-child to the world, only to see her dark boy's limbs scattered to the winds by midnight marauders riding after "damned Niggers."
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

On the other hand, interpretation by a multitude of unrelated conscious desires in the fashion of the older sociological literature is no great advance beyond the findings of common sense.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

DEAR DOCTOR, London is literally new to me; new in its streets, houses, and even in its situation; as the Irishman said, ‘London is now gone out of town.’
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Quoted from the Rev. C. W. Abel, of the London Missionary Society, “Savage Life in New Guinea,” no date.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

cit., p. 5. ↑ 4 A number of good portraits of the S. Massim type are to be found in the valuable book of the Rev. H. Newton, “In Far New Guinea,” 1914, and in the amusingly written though superficial and often unreliable booklet of the Rev. C. W. Abel (London Missionary Society), “Savage Life in New Guinea” (No date).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

“And as for Mitya's being mad, he certainly seems like it now,” Grushenka began with a peculiarly anxious and mysterious air.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now what he said lay in no great compass and may be summed in smaller still; especially as people know the chief part of it already.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

He was very glad to have the Kanawha valley in the possession of the National troops, now that Wise had made the effort to occupy it for the Confederacy; though he had tried to procure the adoption of a policy which should leave it neutral ground,--a policy as impossible here as in Kentucky.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

A man used to a sedentary life is not given to physical action.
— from My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer

Why, people will say, “that’s all very well, all very true”—and nobody will take the trouble—the consequence is, that the public will go on, paying through the nose as before—and if so, let it not grumble; as it has no one to thank but itself for it.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

If Thou triest my soul, let it not go until it has paid the uttermost farthing."
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

The stump thus formed proves exceedingly useful: the subsequent lameness is not great; the heel and tarsus compose a very efficient support for the weight of the body, and the flexion is unimpaired; by attention, too, the deformity may be in a great measure concealed.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

I quote from Document 392-PS, Exhibit Number USA-326, which is a copy of the directive issued by the Defendant Ley on 21 April 1933, reproduced on Pages 51-52 of the Social Life in New Germany by Professor Müller.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

Be it remembered that the truly simple life is not gained by meagreness of possessions and interests, but by singleness of aim controlling a seemingly infinite number of detailed means.
— from Is civilization a disease? by Stanton Coit