This is not teaching him to bear pain; it is training him to feel it.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

That is not the question between us.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

He will send into your soul at every moment the impressions needed to verify your necessary hypotheses and support your humble and prudent expectations.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

This is not the only instance of the word being used by the immortal bard.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

On the whole, we will repeat that this Religion of Mahomet's is a kind of Christianity; has a genuine element of what is spiritually highest looking through it, not to be hidden by all its imperfections.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

George says he does not think I need trouble myself on the subject.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Certain standards of under and overestimations are given us when there is near the object to be judged an object the size of which we know.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I was promised by the Ineffable Noodle, that if I did my duty
— from Doesticks: What He Says by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

It is in the women who know nothing, who hear scarcely two good sermons during the whole year, who have no leisure to think of aught save the gaining of their miserable livelihood, and who nevertheless jealously guard their chastity, hard-pressed as they may be (8)—it is in such women as these that one discovers the virtue that is natural to the heart.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

That is not the conduct of an honest devil.”
— from Flemish Legends by Charles de Coster

This is not the boasting of the ignorant egotist who vaunts himself above his fellow man, but the calm, conscious serenity of a great soul, who has learned the patient philosophy of life.
— from A Persian Pearl, and Other Essays by Clarence Darrow

This is not the first case of wilful murder and supine justice; our court records are full of similar ones.
— from The Net by Rex Beach

3:10-18; this description of them being as they appear before the holiness of God, stripped of all externals: "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
— from Satan by Lewis Sperry Chafer

There is no time to be lost.
— from Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. by Jack Thorne

Here was water enough, water, the most fascinating thing in nature, tempting by its dangers to boyish adventures, and I determined to be a sailor as soon as I was old enough and could get back to Norwich.
— from Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

There is nothing to connect me with my former life, once I've changed my name and disappeared.
— from A Trace of Memory by Keith Laumer

There is neither table of contents, chapter headings, nor index.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various