We must, if we would husband life and not waste it, bravely resolve to dispense with the dispensable, to content ourselves with the minimum of want, to stake our reputation, if such be dear to us, upon intrinsic worth, and show once again, if we can, by our mere life and labour, what are the "roots of honour" and the "veins of wealth."
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I admit that so far as the sentiment of remorse implies self-blame irremovably fixed on the self blamed, it must tend to vanish from the mind of a convinced Determinist.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Their aversion to the flesh of the "unclean beast" is, [Pg 161] on the contrary, of that peculiar character, resembling an instinctive antipathy, which the idea of uncleanness, when once it thoroughly sinks into the feelings, seems always to excite even in those whose personal habits are anything but scrupulously cleanly, and of which the sentiment of religious impurity, so intense in the Hindoos, is a remarkable example.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

I was fully convinced (the sense of reality, in spite of all my romanticism!)
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Kun magníhit ang humay, mapugus pag-impurt ang gubiyirnu, If the supply of rice is scarce, the government is forced to import it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The sun of Rome is set.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The general dislike of innovation, which always makes itself strongly felt in the sphere of religion, is sufficient by itself to account for the superstitious aversion to iron entertained by kings and priests and attributed by them to the gods; possibly this aversion may have been intensified in places by some such accidental cause as the series of bad seasons which cast discredit on iron ploughshares in Poland.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Certainly madam—that conversation where the Spirit of Raillery is suppressed will ever appear tedious and insipid— MARIA.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The two opposite instincts relative to the same object ripen in succession.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

One thing is quite clear; he has not lost himself in speculations foreign to our experience and [329] remote from it; he has dealt with the common facts of life such as they were in his time, such as they remain in ours: for now, as then, men are restless and craving, and seek the satisfactions of rest in science or in pleasure, in successful public careers or in the fortunate conduct of affairs, by securing wealth or by laying up a modest provision for present and future wants.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox

This species of robbery is so common, that few have any hesitancy about practising it.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

Jonathan Dayton , appointed a Senator by the State of New Jersey, and Ray Greene , appointed a Senator by the State of Rhode Island, severally produced their credentials, were qualified, and took their seats in the Senate.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

"Golden stars" and "golden climes" do not figure at all in Whitman's pages; the spirit of romance is sternly excluded.
— from Whitman: A Study by John Burroughs

What can you do when the sense of right is so perverted that vices usurp the place of virtues, and what deserves punishment is accounted a glory and an honour?
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

Galled to the quick by the treatment he received—for he was kept on low, miserable fare and denied “literary privileges”—he determined to break down “the system of restraint in Stafford jail, and win the privilege of reading and writing, or die in the attempt.”
— from Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers by W. E. (William Edward) Winks

The situation of Russia is so uncertain that no one knows whether new States will arise as a result of her continuous disintegration, or if she will be reconstructed in a solid, unified form, and other States amongst those which have arisen will fall.
— from Peaceless Europe by Francesco Saverio Nitti

Hitherto your Committee has considered this system of revenue investment, substituted in the place of a commercial link between India and Europe, so far as it affects India only: they are now to consider it as it affects the Company.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke