The indignation which makes verses is, properly speaking, an inverted love; the love of some right, some worth, some goodness, belonging to ourselves or others, which has been injured, and which this tempestuous feeling issues forth to defend and revenge.
— 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.
The elder Victor is prudently silent.
— 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
The idea of not finding Vera in Pyatigorsk struck my heart like a hammer.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov
Give every vowel its proper sound and every syllable its proper length.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge
Jam reputant annos, interceptoque volatu Vulturis, incidunt properatis saecula metis.
— 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
The prig is a very interesting psychological study, and though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde
officio injuste perturbantes, atque etiam pro viribus impedientes, petens sibi per nos viam et modum ostendi quibus taliter in posterum exercere possit officium,
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
My point of view is purely selfish, you see."
— from The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy
That I have chosen a confessor so old And deaf, that any other it would vex, And never once he has had cause to scold, But found my very innocence perplex So much, he always doubted I was married— How sorry you will be when I've miscarried!
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Insatiable seems the strength of this race, whose deepest feeling has been chiselled by Verhaeren in proud stanzas: Je suis le fils de cette race, Dont les cerveaux plus que les dents Sont solides et sont ardents Et sont voraces.
— from Émile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig
No victory is possible save as the resultant of a totality of virtues, no defeat for which some vice or weakness is not responsible.
— from Memories and Studies by William James
On looking around this miserable dwelling, nothing meets the eye save the damp floor and the bare walls, down which the rain, or condensed vapour, is plentifully streaming.
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon
When Christianity took the place of Judaism the ideas of the Supreme Being became more pure and abstracted, and the visible attributes of Jehovah and His angels appear to have been less frequently presented to the mind; yet even for many ages it seemed as if the grossness of our material senses required some assistance from the eye in fixing or perpetuating the character of religious instinct, and the Church to which I belong, and I may say the whole Christian Church in early times, allowed visible images, pictures, statues, and relics as the means of awakening the stronger devotional feelings.
— from Consolations in Travel; or, the Last Days of a Philosopher by Davy, Humphry, Sir
His blood infected with the poison of his low habitation, his body shrivelled by disease, his intellect veiled in pagan superstitions, the noblest yearnings of his soul strangled at birth by the savage passions of a nature abandoned to sensuality,—the poor Negro of Africa deserves more our pity than our contempt.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
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