"Alas, this is the hatred of light for that which shineth: pitiless it runneth its course.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If this small proportion is recognized, it justifies the postulate that nobody on earth may attain to 150 years.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful, and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and coördination of parts.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

"You see I'm not afraid to give her address to my friends!" Her glance and accent so plainly included Rosedale in this privileged circle that his small eyes puckered with gratification, and a knowing smile drew up his moustache.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review, in such manner as that we could, leisurely and critically, inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for although excellent specimens [180] of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offense.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why I should wish to tell you, and only you, this experience of mine, I really cannot say; perhaps it really is because I love you very much.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

keep under; repress, suppress; smother; pull in, rein in; hold, hold fast; keep a tight hand on; prohibit &c. 761; inhibit, cohibit[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

" November 4 Miss Anthony gave her lecture on "Social Purity" in Rochester, introduced by Judge Henry R. Selden, and writes, "I had a most attentive and solemn listening."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

If, then, as I presume it will be readily conceded, by all except those who erroneously suppose the institution to have been once wholly operative and afterwards wholly speculative, perfection is required in a candidate, not for the physical reason that he may be enabled to give the necessary signs of recognition, but because the defect would destroy the symbolism of that perfect stone which every Mason is supposed to represent in the spiritual temple, we thus arrive at a knowledge of the causes which moved the legislators of Masonry to enact the law, and we see at once, and without doubt, that the words perfect youth are to be taken in an unqualified sense, as signifying one who has "his right limbs as a man ought to have."
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

If any bill shall not be returned by the governor to the House of Representatives within three days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall become a law in like manner as if the governor had signed it, unless the House of Representatives, by its adjournment, shall prevent its return; in which case it shall not become a law.
— from Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 by Joel Palmer

These two are, first, the peculiar African pretension of property in man,—and, secondly, the pretension that such property is recognized in the Constitution.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The living world seemed to give no promise of being included among natural phenomena, but still persisted in retaining its supernatural aspect.
— from The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn

It's subtle—it's like some pictures I remember in Italy.
— from Foes by Mary Johnston

If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, it shall become a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Legislature, by adjourning, shall prevent its returning; in which case it shall not become a law without the signature of the Governor.
— from Civil Government for Common Schools Prepared as a Manual for Public Instruction in the State of New York by Henry C. Northam

As a separate poem, it reappeared in Graham's Magazine for January, 1843.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

Thus "natural selection" produces its results in the same way as human selection does; and presents every appearance of purpose, though the environment which produced the results could have had no intentions or purpose at all.
— from Evolution by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons