ne MUST repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill? 160.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For I no sooner in my Heart divin’d, My Heart, which by a secret harmonie Still moves with thine, joyn’d in connexion sweet, That thou on Earth hadst prosper’d, which thy looks Now also evidence, but straight I felt Though distant from thee Worlds between, yet felt That I must after thee with this thy Son; Such fatal consequence unites us three: Hell could no longer hold us in her bounds, Nor this unvoyageable Gulf obscure Detain from following thy illustrious track.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Whatever she does for us she does because she is obliged; and if she wasn't obliged she wouldn't do it—" Heaven knows how much more Luke Marks might have said, had not my lady turned upon him suddenly and awed him into silence by the unearthly glitter of her beauty.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

H2 anchor Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous My Son, these maxims make a rule, An' lump them aye thegither; The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither: The cleanest corn that ere was dight May hae some pyles o' caff in; So ne'er a fellow-creature slight
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

He stood erect on his throne, and, throwing aside the upper garment of a warrior, suddenly appeared before the eyes of the multitude in the robes of patriarch of Alexandria.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

‘Let us go on,’ said the younger brother, ‘and leave this good fellow to wake them, if he can.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The ill-luck of the unfortunate Sancho so ordered it that among the company in the inn there were four woolcarders from Segovia, three needle-makers from the Colt of Cordova, and two lodgers from the Fair of Seville, lively fellows, tender-hearted, fond of a joke, and playful, who, almost as if instigated and moved by a common impulse, made up to Sancho and dismounted him from his ass, while one of them went in for the blanket of the host’s bed; but on flinging him into it they looked up, and seeing that the ceiling was somewhat lower than what they required for their work, they decided upon going out into the yard, which was bounded by the sky, and there, putting Sancho in the middle of the blanket, they began to raise him high, making sport with him as they would with a dog at Shrovetide.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A sudden and an uncontrollable gleam of delight flashed on the dark features of the captive, when Ruth was about to place in his hands the bow of her own son, and, by signs and words, she gave him to understand that he was to be permitted to use it in the free air of the forest.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

It was so plainly manifested by the judge that he wanted the witnesses to prove us guilty of treason, that no person could avoid seeing it.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

My dear, you insisted upon growing old—I insisted upon remaining young.
— from The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Alas! too many of them abjure school, and, with the awkwardness (though very little of the timidity) of half-fledged birds, flutter blindly on to the stage, and blunder under the unwonted glare of footlights, to the bewilderment of the theatrical habitués and the despair of critics, but apparently to the great satisfaction of themselves and their foolishly admiring friends.
— from Ellen Terry and Her Sisters by T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) Pemberton

The endless diversity of the human will no longer embarrasses its ruler—now there exists one universal good, one universal evil, which he can bring forward or withdraw at pleasure, and which works in unison with himself even when absent.
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

Looking at the comparatively small size of his works, no writer, not even Papillon himself, has committed so many mistakes; and his decisions are generally most peremptory when utterly groundless or evidently wrong.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

Not only the Egyptians, says Diodorus Siculus, but every other people that consecrate this symbol (the Phallus), deem that they thereby do honor to the Active Force of the universal generation of all living things.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Go thy way, and let us go ours in peace.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

And they might see the chamber atop, room and shrine of Marduk, high up, high up, goal of the seven stairs!
— from The Wanderers by Mary Johnston