Whosoever therefore in either matter of pleasure and pain; death and life; honour and dishonour, (which things nature in the administration of the world, indifferently doth make use of), is not as indifferent, it is apparent that he is impious.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.
— 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.

And then to the publique management of business: it is done, as he observes, so loosely and so carelessly, that the kingdom can never be happy with it, every man looking after himself, and his owne lust and luxury; among other things he instanced in the business of money, he do believe that half of what money the Parliament gives the King is not so much as gathered.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

My father had a great respect for Obadiah, and could not bear to hear him disposed of in such a manner—he had moreover some little respect for himself—and could as ill bear with the indignity offered to himself in it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Even if we insist that the interests connected with getting a living are only material and hence intrinsically lower than those connected with enjoyment of time released from labor, and even if it were admitted that there is something engrossing and insubordinate in material interests which leads them to strive to usurp the place belonging to the higher ideal interests, this would not—barring the fact of socially divided classes—lead to neglect of the kind of education which trains men for the useful pursuits.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Thou shalt think Though he divide the realm and give thee half It is too little, helping him to all; And he shall think that thou, which knowest the way To plant unrightful kings, wilt know again, Being ne'er so little urg'd, another way To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Torment him is it?
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

But strange to hear how my Lord Ashley, by my Lord Bristol’s means (he being brought over to the Catholique party against the Bishopps, whom he hates to the death, and publicly rails against them; not that he is become a Catholique, but merely opposes the Bishopps; and yet, for aught I hear, the Bishopp of London keeps as great with the King as ever) is got into favour, so much that, being a man of great business and yet of pleasure, and drolling too, he, it is thought, will be made Lord Treasurer upon the death or removal of the good old man.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“I am sorry to hear it is natural,” returned Sophia; “for I want neither reading nor experience to convince me that it is very dishonourable and very ill-natured: nay, it is surely as ill-bred to tell a husband or wife of the faults of each other as to tell them of their own.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

We hoped to have included in this review the fourth volume of Jérome Paturot , but it has not yet reached us, only a portion of it being published.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 by Various

The Emperor proceeded with his journey, the doctors attending to his injury in the train, and in a few weeks he was well again.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

But for many the higher ideal is renunciation of the world and a life of contemplative asceticism which will accumulate no karma so that after death the soul will pass not to another birth but to some higher and more mysterious state which is beyond birth and death.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

As I hope to see my father again, I believe he would not welcome me to him if I did.
— from The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

One of them has, it is said, three thousand members(?).
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

So closely do hinds resemble the heather in its winter brown, that it is not easy to see them.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

Nor was this all: for the wind, finding itself somewhat imprisoned in the narrow receptacle it had thus abruptly entered, made so strenuous an exertion to extricate itself, that it turned Lady Waddilove's memorable relic utterly inside out; so that when Mr. Brown, aghast at the calamity of his immersion, lifted his eyes to heaven, with a devotion that had in it more of expostulation than submission, he beheld, by the melancholy lamps, the apparition of his umbrella,—the exact opposite to its legitimate conformation, and seeming, with its lengthy stick and inverted summit, the actual and absolute resemblance of a gigantic wineglass.
— from The Disowned — Volume 08 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The loss of blood from the operation is not sufficient, as a rule, to be of consequence, and after care being taken to prevent substances from getting into the openings left after the removal of the horns it is not usual to apply any dressing.
— from Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward

She saw that without the stimulus of the father's presence, Eustace's interest in politics was less real than his interest in letters, nor did the times seem to her propitious to that philosophic conservatism which might be said to represent the family type of mind.
— from Miss Bretherton by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.