The fruits of unity (next unto the well-pleasing of God, which is all in all), are two; the one towards those that are without the church, the other towards those that are within.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

O Lord, don't punish us; but deal with us according to Your great mercy, and forsake us not until the day of the promise You have made us.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

dred guineas, and which Faulkner had sold for a hundred and sixty two months later—any gent who could disprove this statement being offered the privilege of calling Mr. Bambridge by a very ugly name until the exercise made his throat dry.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nor gives the sun his golden orb to roll, But universal night usurps the pole!"
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Therefore, let us not underestimate the Christians: the Christian, false to the point of innocence , is far above the ape—in its application to the Christians a well-known theory of descent becomes a mere piece of politeness....
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The UUCP network uses this variation of the domain addressing scheme.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

We have pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of grandeur: our own are more natural, and by so much more solid and sure, as they are lower.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Non quaero cum irascatur sed cur, nor utrum sit tristis sed unde, non utrum timeat sed quid timeat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

At first he feels aggrieved and somewhat injured, then, after passing through two or three carriages, he begins to feel a certain uneasiness not unlike the pricking of conscience in his ticket-collector’s bosom.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Many years ago, at the beginning of the volunteer movement, at which time I was still associated with Mr. E. T. Smith, I qualified myself for the duties of sergeant, and used to receive half-a-guinea a time from the corps for drilling recruits, who came to us, naturally under the circumstances, in the rawest condition.
— from The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol I by James Henry Mapleson

Leader, the terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of force urg’d home, Such as we might perceive amus’d them all, And stumbl’d many, who receives them right, Had need from head to foot well understand; Not understood, this gift they have besides, They shew us when our foes walk not upright.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Let us now, upon this principle, proceed to the interpretation of our passage.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Whether or not the leading idea, so propounded, is new, or is new in its application as an auxiliary to Christian evidences, the writer is unaware: to his own mind it has occurred quite spontaneously and on a sudden; neither has he scrupled to place it before others with whatever ill advantage of celerity, because it seemed to his own musings to shed a flood of light upon deep truths, which may not prove unwelcome nor unuseful to the doubting minds of many.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

He undid the sash around his waist, and, baring his head and casting off his white Jewish gown, stood forth in an undertunic not unlike those of the enemy, and was ready, body and mind.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

2. It is a fallacy from what is said according to a certain thing, there is no power but of God, that is no moral power, as universal negatives use to be understood, Heb.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

Even after such minor catastrophes, it always bore up nobly under the rude first (and last) aid we could give with cord, or green-hide and axed wood.
— from The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

His father was for a time to assist Uncle Nathan upon the farm; and under pretence of performing some of the lighter work Ephraim usually came to the farm with him, but it was very little work which his father or any one else got out of him; but it seemed an understood thing that Cousin Silas and his family were to be borne with, and they endeavored to bear the infliction with as good a grace as possible.
— from Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past by Harriet S. Caswell