If your first endeavours prove weak, give not yourself up to despair; that would be cowardice: besides, I would have you informed, that you must necessarily take great pains; because you drive to conquer a terrible enemy, to extinguish raging fire, and to reduce to subjection your dearest affections.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Παραζηλόω, ( παρά & ζηλόω ) f. ώσω, to provoke to jealousy, Ro. 10.19; to excite to emulation, Ro. 11.11, 14; to provoke to indignation, 1 Co. 10.22. S. Παραθαλάσσιος, ία, ιον, ( παρά & θάλασσα ) by the sea-side, situated on the sea-coast, maritime, Mat. 4.13.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Ceux-ci faisaient d’elle une vieille femme, marchant toute courbée, les [Pg 187] deux mains appuyées sur un tronçon de béquille avec lequel, de temps en temps, elle remuait, à l’automne, les feuilles mortes.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

or in the spirit of man? or in the meat and blood? Meditating among liars and retreating sternly into myself, I see that there are really no liars or lies after all, And that nothing fails its perfect return, and that what are called lies are perfect returns, And that each thing exactly represents itself and what has preceded it, And that the truth includes all, and is compact just as much as space is compact, And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth—but that all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Again, Plato objects to the imitative arts that they express the emotional rather than the rational part of human nature.
— from The Republic by Plato

You are always labouring and toiling, exposed to every risk and hardship.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Then did the seditious of both the bodies of the Jewish army, as well that belonging to John as that belonging to Simon, drive them away; and indeed were no way wanting as to the highest degree of force and alacrity; for they esteemed themselves entirely ruined if once the Romans got into the temple, as did the Romans look upon the same thing as the beginning of their entire conquest.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

253 Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

The afternoon was one of sun and dust, and when they entered the exhibition room few people were present but themselves.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

But as it is necessary to remove the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle, in order to expose the entire range of the greater bloodvessels and nerves, so the diagonal which that muscle forms, as seen in Plates 3 and 4, disappears, and thus both the cervical triangles are thrown into one common region.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

For example, though the Kalmuk are renowned for their vision, only one or two of the individuals tested exceeded the European record, and while Bruner found Indians and Filipino inferior in hearing a watch tick or a click transmitted by telephone, the fairness of these tests for natives unused to such stimuli has been reasonably challenged.
— from Culture & Ethnology by Robert Harry Lowie

With a single glance they traversed all Kioto; beside the river they saw a large open space, surrounded by a palisade, that was the parade-ground of the Knights of Heaven, some of whom were now galloping about the enclosure, their embroidered robes, their lances, and helmets flashing in the sun.
— from The Usurper: An Episode in Japanese History by Judith Gautier

A very gentle heat is next applied, to expel any adhering moisture from the powder and the tube, after which a strong heat is applied to the bulb, and continued for some time, to effect the entire reduction and sublimation of the arsenical compound.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Then climbing up our improvised ladder away he went to the beach, whither "Begum" and I quickly followed, and in five minutes we, who had been so lately in a grave, were swimming about in the deliriously cool water, dog and men thoroughly enjoying the exhilarating reaction.
— from Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling

In regard to all the relations between the Church and the civil power, we are in a better position for judging than either the early Reformers or the Continental and Anglican theologians of the present day.
— from The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

It is sometimes at the margin a good plan to pick up two warp-threads together, for this emphasises the edge rather pleasantly; this might be advisable in carrying out a long ribbon-like border of any kind.
— from Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie

"What do you mean?" asked Anna, while Mrs. Livingstone's angry frown bade her son keep silence, Filial obedience, however, was not one of John Jr.'s cardinal virtues, and in a few words, he repeated what Aunt Milly had told him, adding aside to Durward, " This explains the extreme rosiness which so much offended your lordship.
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

While thus engaged the English rushed suddenly upon them and cut down a large number, including some of the most valiant warriors and leading chiefs.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2) by Charles Morris