Fear not the confusion ( Verwirrung ) outside of thee, but that within thee; strive after unity, but seek it not in uniformity; strive after repose, but through the equipoise, not through the stagnation ( Stillstand ), of thy activity.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Not the groundlings only, but the poets, rhetoricians, philosophers, will gaze after him, seek an introduction, compliment him delicately, give themselves the pleasure of making him blush deliciously, and go back to their august problems unconsciously stimulated and refreshed by this vision of "the godlike.
— from A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis

I never thought I could have been so utterly silly and ridiculous, but the cause was something that I had no control over, something quite outside myself; it may have been the reaction of suddenly feeling so safe after all my misery, or that his voice was the kind of voice that stirs one up to doing things one didn’t intend to do; really I don’t know.
— from The Claw by Cynthia Stockley

The words τῶν κρειττόνων must have the usual signification, as recognised by Routh and Heindorf, though Schleiermacher treats it as absurd, p. 552, notes.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

In vain we tried to reach the little village of Camino Real on the crest of the ridge; but the night was advancing rapidly, and crawling up such a road by starlight was not a little dangerous.
— from The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

There is that special joy in discovering larger schemes: green plants utilizing sunlight; a rabbit building its days at the plants’ expense; the falcon tearing the rabbit meat for its young; magpies picking at the fallen falcon; and then, in the end, all returning to the earth.
— from Many-Storied Mountains: The Life of Glacier National Park by Greg Beaumont

In the Spanish-American War he had a definite idea that the National Guard of our State should not go into the service of the United States as regiments, but as individual volunteers.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

His manner, as we have seen, was usually sharp and rude, but he could be elaborately courteous when he wished to please, as when he received an embassy from “our good friend” Francis I, and the Hungarian embassy of 1534.
— from Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent by Hester Donaldson Jenkins

The spots of the upper side are repeated, but in addition about the middle of the hind wings there is a semicircle of pale spots.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

But now we unhappily see a Royal Bank established by Act of Parliament, and another with a large fund upon the Orphans’ stock; and yet these advantages, or others, which we expected, not answered, though the pretensions in both have not been wanting at such time as they found it needful to introduce themselves into public esteem, by giving out prints of what they were rather able to do than really intended to practise.
— from An Essay Upon Projects by Daniel Defoe

May 30, 1849, Dr. McLoughlin took the oath and made his declaration to become a citizen of the United States, as required by the naturalization law.
— from Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon by Frederick V. Holman