Putting aside this question of the murder, her evil-doing resolves itself into the expression of views and the acknowledgment of motives which are contrary to our preaching if not to our practice.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

That our peace is not to be placed in men "My Son, if thou set thy peace on any person because thou hast high opinion of him, and art familiar with him, thou shalt be unstable and entangled.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

There is, however, a difference in them, but it is rather subjectively than objectively practical, intended namely to bring an idea of the reason nearer to intuition (by means of a certain analogy) and thereby nearer to feeling.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

That, O poets! is not that a theme worth chanting, striving for?
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Nor do I hold with those who regard it as a presumption if a man of low and humble condition dare to discuss and settle the concerns of princes; because, just as those who draw landscapes place themselves below in the plain to contemplate the nature of the mountains and of lofty places, and in order to contemplate the plains place themselves upon high mountains, even so to understand the nature of the people it needs to be a prince, and to understand that of princes it needs to be of the people.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The coming time was as a mighty river, down which a charmed boat is driven, whose mortal steersman knows, that the obvious peril is not the one he needs fear, yet that danger is nigh; and who floats awe-struck under beetling precipices, through the dark and turbid waters—seeing in the distance yet stranger and ruder shapes, towards which he is irresistibly impelled.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And you've got freckles, too,”—with a critical glance—“so you'll be glad there isn't any looking-glass; and the outdoor picture is nicer than any wall-one could be, so you won't mind sleeping in that room at all, I'm sure,” panted Pollyanna, finding suddenly that she needed the rest of her breath for purposes other than talking.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

I think that the whole future of my race hinges on the question as to whether or not it can make itself of such indispensable value that the people in the town and the state where we reside will feel that our presence is necessary to the happiness and well-being of the community.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

And this was in part the reason of the general notion, or scandal rather, which went about of the temper of people infected: namely, that they did not take the least care or make any scruple of infecting others, though I cannot say
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Of those diverse gifts which our apostle Paul saith God hath bestowed on man, this of physic is not the least, but most necessary, and especially conducing to the good of mankind.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The only precaution is, not to repeat the application so as to cause pain.
— from A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter

For the true test of penury is not the suffering of to-day but the oppressive dread of to-morrow.
— from Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller

Be this said with all manner of respect and deference to the opinion of Monsieur St Evremont; amongst whose admirable talents, that of penetration is not the least.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

By these you will perceive, that our peace is not to be purchased at Algiers but at a price far beyond our powers.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

This required a certain measure of time, which, although not admitting specific limitation, must, from its avowed objects, have been obvious to all; and the progress actually made towards the accomplishment of these objects, proves it now to be near its term.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

[Pg 12] over, the punster is one of all others, " quem jocus risusque circumvolat ;" not only witty himself, but the cause of wit in others; for it is rarely, indeed, in the social circle, that one pun is not the signal for a series of others.
— from The Punster's Pocket-book or, the Art of Punning Enlarged by Bernard Blackmantle, illustrated with numerous original designs by Robert Cruikshank by C. M. (Charles Molloy) Westmacott

Therefore the tenure of property is not to be regarded as a purely individual right.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

At the rapid of St. Ann they are obliged to take out part, if not the whole of their lading.
— from Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. I by Alexander Mackenzie

"Hedwig is a pretty name, and the other part I never think of.
— from Miss Gibbie Gault by Kate Langley Bosher