In our two loves there is but one respect, Though in our lives a separable spite, Which though it alter not love’s sole effect, Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love’s delight.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I trust that the intercourse between our respective countries will become more and more friendly, and be permanently established.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

In spite of my almost passionate anxiety for Minna, I had observed with singular pleasure the intelligent behaviour of Robber, who, as though conscious of the danger, silently kept close to our side, and entirely dispelled my fear that he would give trouble during our dangerous passage.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

In our two loves there is but one respect, Though in our lives a separable spite, Which though it alter not love's sole effect, Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

And these inchoate, budding organic readjustments are important because they are our sole escape from the dominion of routine habits and blind impulse.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

“To-day, for us, unbidden guests in the world, in all the past and in all the future—to-day there is but one region in which there is a crumb of happiness for a Pole: the land of his childhood!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

he who never killed a man whom he had overcome; who, for the inestimable benefit of restoring the liberty of his country, made conscience of killing a tyrant or his accomplices without due form of justice: and who concluded him to be a wicked man, how good a citizen soever otherwise, who amongst his enemies in battle spared not his friend and his guest.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Mr. Malahin,” he says, addressing the old man, “what do you say: is this imitation beaver or real?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Moreover he directed an inquiry to be held about the land which they were accused of holding by force, though it belonged of right to their neighbours.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The Greeks were oppressed by the double weight of the priest, who were invested with temporal power, and of the soldier, who was inflamed by fanatic hatred; and the insuperable bar of religion and language forever separated the stranger and the native.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

There is but one religion in the world, our Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Religion, apart from which there can be but darkness and damnation.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

In matters of art, there is but one rule, to paint and to move."
— from Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies by Seth Curtis Beach

That this immense body of romantic material found its way into Castile is positively certain.
— from Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

In the whole of the new continent, then, there is but one race of men, who are all more or less tawny, the northern parts of America excepted, where we find some men similar to the Laplanders, and others with fair hair, like the northern Europeans; through the whole of this immense territory, the diversity among the inhabitants is hardly perceivable.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 04 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

There is but one refuge from it, and that is in just going to Him and telling Him all about it.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

Such is the judgment expressed by the honoured and learned Bishop of St. Andrews, whose noble and patriotic exertions to draw the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians of Scotland closer together in bonds of religious feelings and religious worship have been spoken of in such terms, and such words have been applied to his labours in that cause, and to the administration generally of his own diocese, by one of the very high English Church papers, as have been to me a cause of deep sorrow and poignant regret.
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

There is but one relic of his writings extant—his epistle to the Philippians.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

Every Sunday she went to Mass; she never missed a service; then, when evening came, she was steeped in the intoxicating bliss of repressed desire.
— from The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

Bissula, I owe my life to you: in return there is but one reward--this life, my life itself."
— from A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Felix Dahn