We may reverently say, politeness "suffereth long, and is kind; envieth not, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, taketh not account of evil."
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

There is no end part to this spell, as it was given to me; only the beginning is repeated after the main part.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

d for these, whether any one proves to be a good man or not, I cannot justly be responsible, because I never either promised them any instruction or taught them at all.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

On the contrary, it is not even permitted to abandon its proper occupation, under the pretence that it has been brought to a conclusion (for it never can be), and to pass into the region of idealizing reason and transcendent conceptions, which it is not required to observe and explore the laws of nature, but merely to think and to imagine—secure from being contradicted by facts, because they have not been called as witnesses, but passed by, or perhaps subordinated to the so-called higher interests and considerations of pure reason.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

And I think it is no extraordinary present, therefore, to give you up your bond again cancelled.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Some plausibility, it is true, this argument possesses, but it is contradicted by the facts of the Arts and Sciences; for all these, though aiming at some good, and seeking that which is deficient, yet pretermit the knowledge of it: now it is not exactly probable that all artisans without exception should be ignorant of so great a help as this would be, and not even look after it; neither is it easy to see wherein a weaver or a carpenter will be profited in respect of his craft by knowing the very-good, or how a man will be the more apt to effect cures or to command an army for having seen the [Greek: idea] itself.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

It never even passed through my mind that this was threatened.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

[448] pile of chivalry of Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque to those who look at the contemporary facts for science or for entertainment, is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not even pretended that the record is complete.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

I never even pretended to care for anybody else.
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

These were but the fruits of their forms of government, the matrix from which their great development sprang; and when once the institutions of a People have been destroyed, there is no earthly power that can bring back the Promethean spark to kindle them here again, any more than in that ancient land of eloquence, poetry and song.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Man is naturally exceeding prone to be exalting himself and depending on his own power or goodness, as though he were he from whom he must expect happiness, and to have respect to enjoyments alien from God and his Spirit, as those in which happiness is to be found.
— from Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards

An act similar, in nearly every particular, to that which our Gospel appears to connect with the period immediately after Christ's baptism—before the Baptist's imprisonment—is said in the others to have been performed when He was about to keep the last passover. '
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

As the transition of ideas is here made contrary to the natural propensity of the imagination, that faculty must be overpowered by some stronger principle of another kind; and as there is nothing ever present to the mind but impressions and ideas, this principle must necessarily lie in the impressions.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

But if so, why is it not equally proper to say of the equally numerous arrangements, the no less necessary result of which is the production of pain, that they are evidences of malevolence?
— from Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley

I have killed mayors in nearly every place that is worthy of the name of municipality; and between the ordinary city official and papa,' I added, 'there is about as much affinity as there is between a case of hydrophobia and a limpid trout stream trickling its way through the woods of my native Wisconsin.'
— from The Colossus: A Novel by Opie Percival Read

Few at all entered the room, and into the spirit of it none except perhaps the young man who was at the head of the book department at Keeling’s stores.
— from An Autumn Sowing by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson