And third piece of advice is: Sorrow not over what is lost forever."
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Now, here are my sister Price's children; take them all together, I dare say nobody would believe what a sum they cost Sir Thomas every year, to say nothing of what I do for them.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Nothing, however, could arrest the progress of the latter's affection, and there were many proofs that it met with a response from the dark and stubborn nature on which it was lavished.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The size of the original page has been reduced so as to make both books uniform with Butler's other works; and, fortunately, it has been possible, by using a smaller type, to get the same number of words into each page, so that the references remain good, and, with the exception of a few minor alterations and rearrangements now to be enumerated so far as they affect the Translation, the new editions are faithful reprints of the original editions, with misprints and obvious errors corrected—no attempt having been made to edit them or to bring them up to date.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

His eyes must have shone, not only with intelligence, but with kindly tenderness and that hardly restrained childlike enthusiasm which I could hear in Ieronim’s voice when he quoted to me passages from the hymns.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I will spare no one, since no one would interest himself to protect you, and your enemies are never weary of oppressing your innocence, Alas!
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

My words does but injure the love I have conceived within Natural death the most rare and very seldom seen Nature of judgment to have it more deliberate and more slow Nature of wit is to have its operation prompt and sudden Nature, who left us in such a state of imperfection Nearest to the opinions of those with whom they have to do Negligent garb, which is yet observable amongst the young men Neither be a burden to myself nor to any other Neither continency nor virtue where there are no opposing desire Neither men nor their lives are measured by the ell
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Thence by water to Westminster Hall, and there walked a while talking at random with Sir W. Doyly, and so away to Mrs. Martin’s lodging, who was gone before, expecting me, and there je hazer what je vellem cum her and drank, and so by coach home (but I have forgot that I did in the morning go to the Swan, and there tumbling of la little fille, son uncle did trouver her cum su neckcloth off, which I was ashamed of, but made no great matter of it, but let it pass with a laugh), and there spent the evening with my wife at our flagelets, and so to supper, and after a little reading to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Go, take a walk in the garden, and don't go in till your blubbering is over: and I charge you say nothing of what is past, and all shall be well, and I'll forgive you.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

[Pg 488] There is a surplus now of workers in cotton mills, but not of operatives in woollen mills.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

But in this case the two persons whose likeness gives rise to laughable mistakes are twins, brother and sister, neither of whom is aware of the other’s presence in the same town.
— from Through the Casentino with Hints for the Traveller by Lina Eckenstein

Stung to the quick, he took a proud, unreasoning determination to say not one word in his own defense, and after the first stormy flash that overspread his countenance, he stood with eyes cast down and a white obdurate face that defied all questioning.
— from Castle Blair: A Story of Youthful Days by Flora L. (Flora Louisa) Shaw

It was pointed out in the prayer of the owners of this portion of the cargo that while the British Government might be justified in seizing her own vessels, it appeared that the British naval authorities were illegally jeopardizing the property of American citizens in that the vessel seized was "under contract to deliver to the persons named in the invoices the merchandise therein specified, none of which is contraband of war.
— from Neutral Rights and Obligations in the Anglo-Boer War by Robert Granville Campbell

Was it indeed Sir Nick, or was it
— from Captain Ravenshaw; Or, The Maid of Cheapside. A Romance of Elizabethan London by Robert Neilson Stephens

But the purposive action of this will is to realise its concept, Liberty, in these externally-objective aspects, making the latter a world moulded by the former, which in it is thus at home with itself, locked together with it: the concept accordingly perfected to the Idea. Liberty, shaped into the actuality of a world, receives the form of Necessity the deeper substantial nexus of which is the system or organisation of the principles of liberty, whilst its phenomenal nexus is power or authority,
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I have seen nobody of whom I could ask a question.’
— from An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell

Coupon Sorters. —Messrs. Rothschild, St. Swithin's Lane, and Messrs. Baring, Bishopsgate Street Within, employ a small number of women in sorting coupons; the only necessary qualifications are an ordinary English education and good references.
— from How Women May Earn a Living by Mercy Grogan