Enforced physical quietude may be unfavorable to realization of a problem, to undertaking the observations needed to define it, and to performance of the experiments which test the ideas suggested.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

“What I advise is that you let the government attend to its own business.” “Governments are established for the welfare of the peoples, and in order to accomplish this purpose properly they have to follow the suggestions of the citizens, who are the ones best qualified to understand their own needs.” “Those who constitute the government are also citizens, and among the most enlightened.” “But, being men, they are fallible, and ought not to disregard the opinions of others.” “They must be trusted, they have to attend to everything.” “There is a Spanish proverb which says, ‘No tears, no milk,’ in other words, ‘To him who does not ask, nothing is given.’ ” “Quite the reverse,” replied the lawyer with a sarcastic smile; “with the government exactly the reverse occurs—” But he suddenly checked himself, as if he had said too much and wished to correct his imprudence.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Suppose now that there were two such magic rings, and the just put on one of them and the unjust the other; no man can be imagined to be of such an iron nature that he would stand fast in justice.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The reluctance to mention the names or even syllables of the names of persons connected with the speaker by marriage can hardly be separated from the reluctance evinced by so many people to utter their own names or the names of the dead or of the dead or of chiefs and kings; and if the reticence as to these latter names springs mainly from superstition, we may infer that the reticence as to the former has no better foundation.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But then again others said there were some things which could not wait to be laid before a Council, but about which one had at once to decide whether to undertake them or not.
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

His works were exceedingly numerous, and those which have survived to us treat of natural history, metaphysics, physical science, ethics, logic, and general literature.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

They further went on to say, that the whole of us were covered with wounds, and that only 440 men remained of the united troops of Narvaez and Cortes; the Mexicans occupied every pass and every moun [Pg 363] tain, and the vessels would rot away with the worm if they lay any longer in the harbour; and so on.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Whoever, in rambling through the ‘eternal city,’ has had his sympathy awakened in beholding at the Porta Salaria the stone seat where the conqueror of the Persians and the Goths, the blind Belisarius, begged his daily dole,—or pondered at the unsculptured tomb of Napoleon upon the vicissitudes of greatness, will appreciate the feeling of one who, in sentiment, had identified himself with the Rajputs, of whom Partap was justly the model.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Thousands upon thousands of natives who only speak a little Spanish can both speak, read, and write their native Tagalo, Ilocano, or Visayan, as the case may be.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The foregoing explanations will give the principle of this card-lacing machine as follows: “ One needle holds the other’s twine until the other needle has moved one point ahead. ”
— from The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained With an appendix on the preparation of jacquard cards, and practical hints to learners of jacquard designing by E. A. (Emanuel Anthony) Posselt

It is as if he told us that our notion of death is all wrong, that there is no such thing as we think it; that we should be nearer the truth if we denied it altogether, and gave to what we now call death the name of sleep, for it is but a passing appearance, and no right cause of such misery as we manifest in its presence.
— from Miracles of Our Lord by George MacDonald

286 Meanwhile influential friends were doing what in them lay to forward the interests of the women in other quarters; for it must be remembered that, as matriculated students of the University they ought not to have been compelled to study in Extra-Mural classes, and indeed it was only a limited number of such classes that would be accepted for the University degree.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

They wore the usual tawein , or narrow petticoat of gorgeously striped silk, polka jackets of thin white muslin, and ornaments of extraordinary brilliancy.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Dr Livingstone and others tell us that thousands upon thousands of negroes have, of late years, gone out from Quillimane into slavery under the convenient title of “free emigrants,” their freedom being not quite equal to that of a carter’s horse, for while that animal, although enslaved, is usually well fed, the human animal is kept on rather low diet lest his spirit should rouse him to deeds of desperate violence against his masters.
— from Black Ivory by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

For even granting that he was a little artificial, he was a real hero all the same; his handsomeness and air of good society were unmistakable, his conversation was passable; he knew the thousand things which people in society know, and which, whether they understand them or not, they are in the habit of hearing talked about.
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

So eager was he to improve the time that he determined to see how much he could read during the unemployed time of night and morning, and his success was beyond his expectations.
— from Clotelle; Or, The Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; Or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown

The first article of it ordered them to deny themselves, not to presume upon their own worth; to lay their understandings and wills at the foot of the cross, and resign them up to one newly crucified at Jerusalem: honors and wealth were to be despised, flesh to be tamed, the cross to be borne, enemies to be loved, revenge not to be satisfied, blood to be spilled, and torments to be endured for the honor of One they never saw, nor ever before heard of; who was preached with the circumstances of a shameful death, enough to affright them from the entertainment: and the report of a resurrection and glorious ascension were things never heard of by them before, and unknown in the world, that would not easily enter into the belief of men: the cross, disgrace, self‑denial, were only discoursed of in order to the attainment of an invisible world, and an unseen reward, which none of their predecessors ever returned to acquaint them with; a patient death, contrary to the pride of nature, was published as the way to happiness and a blessed immortality: the dearest lusts were to be pierced to death for the honor of this new Lord.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

Who shall tell us that outward nature has no effect upon our mood?
— from Eugene Aram — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

If these fine senses wuz not so unused, and as you may say bed-rid by disuse, how do we know how truly near to us may be those who in our blindness we say are fur away, how do we know but their spiritual self, their real self, may be nearer to us than our neighbors in the flesh, and those who sit by our firesides, though our mortal eyes may not see them, and oceans and seas may divide us and mebby the Deepest River.
— from Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley