Since it is probable, that not only the inferior parts of the soul, as the passions are called, but the understanding itself makes use of some fine corporeal instruments in its operation; Page 240 though what they are, and where they are, may be somewhat hard to settle: but that it does make use of such, appears from hence; that a long exercise of the mental powers induces a remarkable lassitude of the whole body; and on the other hand, that great bodily labor, or pain, weakens and sometimes actually destroys the mental faculties.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Obviously, only because that other person becomes the ultimate object of my will, precisely as usually I myself am that object; in other words, because I directly desire weal, and not woe, for him, just as habitually I do for myself.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Only in the dance do I know how to speak the parable of the highest things:—and now hath my grandest parable remained unspoken in my limbs!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

One of the ushers in my Museum once told me he intended to whip a man who was in the lecture-room as soon as he came out.
— from The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

la evolución hacia un Internet multilingüe?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Allow me, Sir, to introduce my sister—quite one of us Sir, although of the weaker sex—of great use in my business Sir, I assure you.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Thou ne'er canst win—the thought forego— From the safe guard of shaft and bow King Janak's child, the dear delight Of Ráma unapproached in might.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

If resources are limited, start by reading user information manual.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The answer of a great man, to one who asked what time was: Si non rogas intelligo, (which amounts to this; The more I set myself to think of it, the less I understand it,) might perhaps persuade one that time, which reveals all other things, is itself not to be discovered.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Numbers of Nicobar pigeons left the island as we approached, having apparently used it merely as a roosting-place.
— from Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by John MacGillivray

“I don’t understand you,” I answered quickly interested; but ere the words had left my mouth there was a tap at the door, and the servant, ushered in my old friend and lecturer, Carl Hoefer.
— from In White Raiment by William Le Queux

I was undressing in my own room, when, with a premonitory tap at the door, he entered, and at once began to speak:— “To-morrow I want you to bring me, before night, a set of post-mortem knives. ”
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The muscular sense is useful to us in many ways.
— from Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele

Do you remember?—the smoke from your cigarette whirling up in my face?...
— from The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Those unimagined ills my sons, my king Have suffered? or my city, or daughters shamed?
— from The Fall of Troy by Quintus, Smyrnaeus, active 4th century

Phi-oo, unless I misunderstood him, explained that in the earlier stages these queer little creatures are apt to display signs of suffering in their various cramped situations, but they easily become indurated to their lot; and he took me on to where a number of flexible-limbed messengers were being drawn out and broken in.
— from The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Land, in the sense that single taxers use it, meaning all the natural sources of wealth, is certainly an important basis of exploitation, and if you were to tax land values to the full extent, you would abolish a large portion of privilege—just how large would be hard to figure.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

When I heard that, I suddenly said to that Viśákhila, “I hereby take from you that mouse as capital advanced;” saying this I took the mouse up in my hand, and wrote him a receipt for it, which he put in his strong box, and off I went.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

The edges of them never got quite well; and poor Pussy used to sit and wash them by the hour; sometimes mewing and looking up in my face, with each stroke of her paw on her eyes, as much as to say, "Don't you see how sore my eyes are?
— from Letters from a Cat Published by Her Mistress for the Benefit of All Cats and the Amusement of Little Children by Helen Hunt Jackson