When Socrates, at the point of death, assents to the request that he should show grounds for his faith 'that when the man is dead, the soul exists and retains thought and power,' Plato represents him as suggesting: Not the sharpest censor 'could say that in now discussing such matters, I am dealing with what does not concern me.'
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

You prefer the kite because it is less tiring and there is no danger.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Again; personality is not "essentially a limitation and a relation," in the sense that it necessarily detracts aught from any being who possesses it.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Slaves are on a level with their masters and mistresses, and there is no difference between men and women.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

So, seeing there is no doubt that wicked wretches are oftentimes set in high places, it is also clear that things which suffer association with the worst of men cannot be good in their own nature.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Footnote 1: The expression, as is not uncommon with Tennyson, is extremely ambiguous; it may mean that he hated hatred, scorned scorn, and loved love, or that he had hatred, scorn and love as it were in quintessence, like Dante, and that is no doubt the meaning.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The history of Kermán, 'Agd-ul-'Olá, plainly says Bardshír is the capital of Kermán, and from the description of Bardshír there is no doubt of its having been the present town Kermán.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

She had a written character, as large as a proclamation; and, according to this document, could do everything of a domestic nature that ever I heard of, and a great many things that I never did hear of.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He practised his religion to the last letter of church law, and worshipped Christ the Son of God; but there is no doubt that he would have turned his exclusive back on Christ the carpenter's son, and had him prosecuted for an impostor had he presented himself with no better pedigree.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

Then Fremont asked: "And he will live?" "There is no doubt of it," was the reply.
— from Boy Scouts in Mexico; Or, On Guard with Uncle Sam by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

I do not assume that he was solely moved by the stings of conscience, or that he had any great horror of perjury in the abstract; but, however the customs of a country may modify the modes of expressing the feelings, and of acting under their guidance, there is no doubt that he entertained for Azora a pure and ardent love.
— from The Arab's Pledge: A Tale of Marocco in 1830 by Edward Ledwich Mitford

But in the Wanderer there is nothing dithyrambic; rather its characteristic is a reflective repose, which is in strange contrast to the tumultuous outpouring of the Wanderers Sturmlied , and which might induce us to assign its production to a later day in Goethe's life, to the period of his sojourn in Italy, when years had somewhat chastened him, and when he was under the spell of the artistic remains of classical antiquity.
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

If a Church lose the Spirit of God, there is no depth of corruption to which it may not rapidly descend; and a degraded Church is the most potent factor of national decay. Allow me, gentlemen, to say, in closing, that I believe the question, what is to be the type and the tone of the ministry in any generation, is decided in the theological seminaries.
— from The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker

But that it's based upon delusion, because there is no definiteness, no homogeneity, no stability, only different stages somewhere between them and indefiniteness, heterogeneity, and instability.
— from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

Without having ventured into the field of sentiment, there is no doubt Peter had carried himself in a way to satisfy Mr. Molyneux, and he himself gave such an account of the tea to Mr. McGuffie senior, that night, that the horsedealer, although not given to Pharisaical observance of the Sabbath, attended the little Baptist chapel next day in state, sleeping through the sermon, but putting five shillings in the plate, while Peter, sitting most demurely at his father's side, identified two of his enemies of McIntyre's Academy and turned various things over in his mind.
— from Young Barbarians by Ian Maclaren

The little lizards promised; and for some time they were very careful; first one kept watch, and then another; but at length Sprightly said: “There is no danger near.
— from Three Minute Stories by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

" "You expect to win in the end, however?" "Certainly; there is no doubt but that Ralph Mainwaring will win the case.
— from That Mainwaring Affair by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour