Then female elephants and male, Gold-girthed, with flags that wooed the gale, Marched with their bright bells' tinkling chime Like clouds when ends the summer time: Some cars were huge and some were light, For heavy draught or rapid flight, Of costly price, of every kind, With clouds of infantry behind.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He is a true sage who learns from all the world.
— 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.

Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shon, and order from disorder sprung: Swift to thir several Quarters hasted then The cumbrous Elements, Earth, Flood, Aire, Fire, And this Ethereal quintessence of Heav’n Flew upward, spirited with various forms, That rowld orbicular, and turnd to Starrs Numberless, as thou seest, and how they move; Each had his place appointed, each his course, The rest in circuit walles this Universe. Look downward on that Globe whose hither side With light from hence, though but reflected, shines; That place is Earth the seat of Man, that light His day, which else as th’ other Hemisphere Night would invade, but there the neighbouring Moon (So call that opposite fair Starr) her aide Timely interposes, and her monthly round Still ending, still renewing, through mid Heav’n; With borrowd light her countenance triform Hence fills and empties to enlighten th’ Earth,
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Torralva, when she found herself spurned by Lope, was immediately smitten with love for him, though she had never loved him before.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A little Neglect may breed great Mischief: adding, for want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the Enemy; all for the want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail .
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Now first you must go to the Three Gray Sisters, who live far off in the north, and are so very cold that they have only one eye and one tooth among the three.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

ἐκοπίᾱσα, to be wearied or spent with labour, faint from weariness, Mat. 11.28.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Something told him—we are apt to fall into thought on a stair-way—that the stranger was looking for a physician.
— from Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

Where shall we look for it?
— from An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

I still feel that I have something worth living for.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

When any damage was done by a slave or an animal, the owner of the same was liable for the loss, though the mischief was done without his knowledge and against his will.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

If this were not the Zujar ford, then the Spaniards were liable for the treasure beyond this place, and as far as the true one.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Several years after, there was a great explosion upon the dock where a German mail steamer was loading for sea which produced a sensation through [Pg 39] out the world.
— from Derelicts: An Account of Ships Lost at Sea in General Commercial Traffic And a Brief History of Blockade Runners Stranded Along the North Carolina Coast, 1861-1865 by James Sprunt

After my departure from Berlin she heard Schroder-Devrient twice in the Fliegender Hollander, and the letter in which she described the effect produced upon her by my work conveyed to me for the first time the vigorous and profound sentiments of a deep and confident recognition such as seldom falls to the lot of even the greatest master, and cannot fail to exercise a weighty influence on his mind and spirit, which long for self-confidence.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

In his suite were Lord Frederick Paulet, the Marquess of Blandford, Viscount Hamilton, and Major Teesdale.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

After this she waited, looking for a long time at his sleeping face, which had a very interesting appearance.
— from Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy