A witness who has several times observed an unknown region in murky weather and has made his important observation under very clear skies, is not to be trusted.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The usual reason is merely that wishes are all, to begin with, unconscious, and only become known when they are actively noticed.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken, And my next self thou harder hast engross'd: Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken; A torment thrice three-fold thus to be cross'd: Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward, But then my friend's heart let my poor heart bail; Whoe'er keeps me, let my heart be his guard; Thou canst not then use rigour in my jail:
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

But at the same time he leaves to natural mechanism under this to us indispensable principle of an original organisation , an undeterminable but yet unmistakeable element, in reference to which the faculty of matter in an organised body is called by him a formative impulse (in contrast to, and yet standing under the higher guidance and direction of, that merely mechanical formative power universally resident in matter).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

How have you preserved this family!—The character which Mr Allworthy hath formerly given me of you was, I find, strictly true.—And indeed, if I had no obligation to you, my obligations to him are such, that, on his account, I should shew you the utmost respect in my power.—Nay, believe me, dear Mr Jones, if my daughters' and my own reputation were out of the case, I should, for your own sake, be sorry that so pretty a young gentleman should converse with these women; but if you are resolved to do it, I must beg you to take another lodging; for I do not myself like to have such things carried on under my roof; but more especially upon the account of my girls, who have little, heaven knows, besides their characters, to recommend them.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Now Justice and Injustice do seem to be used respectively in many senses, but, because the line of demarcation between these is very fine and minute, it commonly escapes notice that they are thus used, and it is not plain and manifest as where the various significations of terms are widely different for in these last the visible difference is great, for instance,
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

should the stern Ulysses rise in might, These gates would seem too narrow for thy flight."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

On looking over the harvest customs which have been passed under review, it may be noticed that they involve two distinct conceptions of the corn-spirit.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But then my friend’s heart let my poor heart bail, Whoe’er keeps me, let my heart be his guard, Thou canst not then use rigour in my gaol.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

What I learned revived my hopes, and I was better pleased not to have found Don Fernando than to find him married, for it seemed to me that the door was not yet entirely shut upon relief in my case, and I thought that perhaps Heaven had put this impediment in the way of the second marriage, to lead him to recognise his obligations under the former one, and reflect that as a Christian he was bound to consider his soul above all human objects.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Upon returning, I met my two comrades, who had had all they could do to take care of the other pack animals, and were very anxious about me.
— from Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown by James S. (James Stephens) Brown

It wasn't very pleasant in the streets—everybody's umbrella ran into me, and the pavements were wet and slippery.
— from Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary King Waddington

Whether this ultimate result is merely a result or whether it is also a “purpose” is a question which, as we have seen twice already, it is wholly beyond the power of the causal mode of interpretation to answer.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

The only chance, and that was a very faint one, of tracing these unfortunates, rested in Madame de Lucenay, who, fortunately, was on intimate terms with Lady d'Harville.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

As the non-restraint system—a term, it must be confessed, which cannot boast of scientific precision, but is well understood—has been the leading, and often engrossing, topic of discussion during the period now under review, I must not omit a brief reference to it.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

'D-d-did what?' mockingly demanded Amos James, with unnecessary rancour, it might have seemed.
— from The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree

The old man's words, “we shall have troops all round us,” rang in my head, till I could have cried.
— from Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield

Their title to existence is so clear to themselves that they are convinced it will be universally recognized; it must not be made a matter of international conflict.
— from England and the War by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

Then one morning [Pg 218] As I awoke with thoughts of her as usual Right in my mind there plumped an incident On shipboard when she asked me if I knew A certain man in Chicago.
— from Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters