Hindu scriptures teach that the incarnating ego requires a million years to obtain liberation from maya .
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Titinius is enclosed round about With horsemen, that make to him on the spur, Yet he spurs on.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

But you will remember that I expressly repudiated awhile ago the pretension to offer any arguments which could be coercive in a so-called scientific fashion in this matter.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

So then the Proposition holds true in every Ray apart, so far as appears by Experiment.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

To have bound up this New Testament (a kind of ROCOCO of taste in every respect) along with the Old Testament into one book, as the "Bible," as "The Book in Itself," is perhaps the greatest audacity and "sin against the Spirit" which literary Europe has upon its conscience.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This, I think, is exactly right, as to how our forces should move.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

It seemed to him that in exquisite raiment, and to the delicate sound of flutes, the sins of the world were passing in dumb show before him.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The number of orphan children yearly adopted by wealthy Canadians, and treated in every respect as their own, is almost incredible.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

I don't know that I ever read a book with more interest than that corn-chandler's ledger; though at one time, when it was merely a commonplace record of the common life which circulated there, testifying to its industry and the response of earth, it would have been no matter to me.
— from Old Junk by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

Is it not the creative power that is eternally renovating and revivifying all things on the surface of the earth?
— from Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 Years Ago Their relation to the sacred mysteries of Egypt, Greece, Chaldea and India. Free Masonry in times anterior to the Temple of Solomon. by Augustus Le Plongeon

First time I ever ran across a grouchy fisherman.”
— from Atom Mystery [Young Atom Detective] by Charles Ira Coombs

Like all the Penguins, this Bird is an excellent swimmer and diver, and its coating of down is so dense that it even resist a bullet; it is consequently difficult to shoot.
— from A Natural History for Young People: Our Animal Friends in Their Native Homes including mammals, birds and fishes by Phebe Westcott Humphreys

The King afterwards went to mass, during which at his right hand was the new King of Spain, who during the rest of his stay in France, was publicly treated in every respect as a sovereign, by the King and all the Court.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

They were a lackadaisical ethnicity and their amusements were definitely petty—the young chasing balls and finding the extent of their physical prowess; carnal youth in sexual peccadilloes; the worker ants who, when not at work, and no longer succumbing to that role that gave some structure to their existence, spending time in evening revelries about owning their own businesses; elderly women engaged in Tai Chi and their husbands in Chinese checkers on park benches; the poor along the canals, clustered in evenings near their neighbors' shacks for beer and cigarette pilfering, sometimes the men comic book swapping and always musing the day's pettiness amusingly; the rich speculating on how to invest and have more, seeking large flat screen televisions and the fastest computers at Panthip Plaza, the most fashionable clothes in the best of malls, and exchanging tips on how to improve their landscapes and gardens; but which of them, in the thickets of men, felt or thought deeply about the world?
— from An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven David Justin Sills

Although subordinate to life and character it contributes freely to these, and its best results come from life that is exceeding rich, and character that is strong, true and enlightened through broad, general culture.
— from For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Aubertine Woodward Moore

Moreover, in his books against the same Plato, concerning Justice, he immediately at the very beginning leaps into a discourse touching the gods, and says, that Cephalus did not rightly avert men from injustice by the fear of the gods, and that his teaching is easily refuted, and that it affords to the contrary many arguments and probabilities impugning the discourse concerning divine punishments, as nothing differing from the tales of Acco and Alphito (or Raw-Head and Bloody-Bones), with which women are wont to frighten little children from their unlucky pranks.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

The Roman Church, with its hoary traditions, its encrusted ritual, and its antique associations, crystallizes itself into a single voice.
— from Faces in the Fire, and Other Fancies by Frank Boreham

“Take it easy!” repeated Archie, in disgust, “how can I?
— from Frank at Don Carlos' Rancho by Harry Castlemon