There are sorrows / Where of necessity the soul must be / Its own support.
— 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.
463 Every State has subjects and rulers, who in a democracy are called rulers, and in other States masters: but in our State they are called saviours and allies; and the subjects who in other States are termed slaves, are by us termed nurturers and paymasters, and those who are termed comrades and colleagues in other places, are by us called fathers and brothers.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
Every State has subjects and rulers, who in a democracy are called rulers, and in other States masters: but in our State they are called saviours and allies; and the subjects who in other States are termed slaves, are by us termed nurturers and paymasters, and those who are termed comrades and colleagues in other places, are by us called fathers and brothers.
— from The Republic by Plato
We men may say more, swear more; but indeed, Our shows are more than will; for still we prove Much in our vows, but little in our love.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare
We men may say more, swear more, but indeed Our shows are more than will; for still we prove Much in our vows, but little in our love.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
I bery fond ob him because I had been wid him so much, but I often shake my head when I tink de time come dat
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
She said she'd been To holy Palestine; And seen more blood in one short day Than they had all seen in nine.
— from The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by Henry Kirke White
—The human countenance, that is so marvellously beautiful in our superior hybrid races, passes, during its embryonal life, through many forms that are very far removed from such perfection.
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori
os ’s mer bong is os se mich aw fergessa hut.
— from Pennsylvania Dutch Rip Van Winkle: A romantic drama in two acts by E. H. (Edward H.) Rauch
The Allied world saw clearly that the German doctrine—the right of a powerful State to deny national independence to a smaller State, merely because its own self-preservation demanded it—was something which menaced nationality and right.
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell
Having seen their capabilities when the nets were perforce removed altogether, I gained an idea of what the sport might be in our sea-girt island, with its innumerable rivers, were the angling not throttled by the vast array of legalised nets that threaten to destroy, or at any rate reduce very heavily, the sport and profit of riparian owners.
— from Chats on Angling by H. V. Hart-Davis
I am at your mercy Lady, 'tis my fortune, My stubborn fate; the day is yours, you have me, The valour of one single man has cross'd me, Crost me and all my hope; for when the Battel's Were at the hottest game of all their furies, And conquest ready then to crown me Victor, [Pg 297] One single man broke in, one sword, one vertue, And by his great example thousands followed, Oh how I shame to think on't, how it shakes me!
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 07 of 10 by John Fletcher
These symptoms may be indicative of some disturbance in the motor areas of the brain, but it must not be forgotten that all of these may be simulated by nervousness, especially if the person knows the meaning that is attached by doctors to these symptoms.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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