For, as is shown in the Hitopadeça and elsewhere, fate is nothing else than the result of action done in a former birth.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Multorum autem odiis nullas opes posse obsistere, si antea fuit ignotum, nuper est cognitum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is the great centre on which our enemies can concentrate whatever force is not employed elsewhere.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

With two tenths, said the duke, 'I find it not enough;— how could I do with that system of one tenth?' 4.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

I have determined, therefore, to beat a retreat in time, and am actually looking out for some other nest in this great city where old English manners are still kept up, where French is neither eaten, drunk, danced, nor spoken, and where there are no fashionable families of retired tradesmen.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Anne’s clipped head made a sensation in school on the following Monday, but to her relief nobody guessed the real reason for it, not even Josie Pye, who, however, did not fail to inform Anne that she looked like a perfect scarecrow.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But the incompatibility of souls really "fair" is not essential; and within the enchanted region of the Renaissance, one needs not be for ever on one's guard: here there are no fixed parties, no exclusions: all breathes of that unity of culture in which "whatsoever things are comely" are reconciled, for the elevation and adorning of our spirits.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Mrs. Hooker will find it no easy matter to hook them on to her platform, but she will be wiser after trying.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

From its nether extremity swung a large cresset.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

In the lowest layers he made out ancient hearths, and found numerous fragments of pottery which are the most ancient examples of keramic ware found in New England, and were covered with incised ornamentation of considerable refinement.
— from Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de

“I had it with me when you were hunting for it,” Nan explained, “and as for what was in it—it was a warning that if I came to Scotland and to Emberon that I’d never live to see the coronation!”
— from Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays by Annie Roe Carr

Such "ideas" are what one finds in newspaper editorials, speeches before Congress, sermons by evangelical divines—in [Pg 302] brief, in the literature expressly addressed to those persons whose distinguishing mark is that ideas never enter their heads.
— from Prejudices, Third Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

France is not exactly a land of liberty; personal liberty is sacrificed to efforts to enforce equality.
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

Having made the tour, we returned to rest ourselves on one of the benches opposite the choir, allowable, where people walk and talk unscrupulously during mass, for I noticed even priests doing so with the unconcern of two boys, who kneeled before San Giovanni 194 Buono, praying a little and talking a little by turns.
— from A Ride on Horseback to Florence Through France and Switzerland. Vol. 2 of 2 Described in a Series of Letters by a Lady by Augusta Macgregor Holmes

It is time, for I never earned a penny in my life; but if you are willing, I should like to ask you a few questions, Mr. Armstrong?”
— from Tom Temple's Career by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

And what you find in Chicago you may find in New England, in Kentucky, in California, everywhere.
— from American Sketches by Charles Whibley

'Tis most likely , for it never entered my head that Robson would print what came to him in form of complaint, just as I wrote it to you.
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

The proved maxim that honesty is the best policy is still being literally hammered into the children of to-day who seem to find it no easier to follow the better Page 33 way than did the children of the past.
— from The Black Man's Place in South Africa by Nielsen, Peter, active 1922-1937

Its predominating color is yellow; it has an elegant form, is a bold biter, varies in weight from four ounces to a pound (although occasionally found in New England weighing two pounds); has a dry and sweet flesh, but ill adapted to satisfy the cravings of a hungry man on account of its bones, which are particularly numerous, hard, and pointed.
— from Haw-Ho-Noo; Or, Records of a Tourist by Charles Lanman