A Japanese disciple [7] of his says—"The lord of heaven and earth, of all living beings, dwelling in the heart of man, becomes his mind ( Kokoro ); hence a mind is a living thing, and is ever luminous:" and again, "The spiritual light of our essential being is pure, and is not affected by the will of man.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

[17] This phrase may also be read "persuading themselves that that ( i.e. their breach of the laws of obedience, etc.) beseemeth them and is forbidden only to others" ( faccendosi a credere che quello a lor si convenga e non si disdica che all' altre ); but the reading in the text appears more in harmony with the general sense and is indeed indicated by the punctuation of the Giunta Edition of 1527, which I generally follow in case of doubt.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

They entail a life-long obligation of every man to work for his kinswomen and their families.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

If, in the same neighbourhood, there was any employment evidently either more or less advantageous than the rest, so many people would crowd into it in the one case, and so many would desert it in the other, that its advantages would soon return to the level of other employments.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Rig would counsel give to them both; rose from the table, prepared to sleep; laid him down in the middle of the bed, the domestic pair lay one on either side.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow; eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate|; obumbrate[obs3], adumbrate; cast into the shade becloud, bedim[obs3], bedarken[obs3]; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Thus was magnetism laughed out of England for a time.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

If, however, nationalism is on its guard against all illusions as to itself, this is a natural phase in the process of development from barbaric selfish individualism to free humanism and altruism,—a phase the justification and necessity of which can only be denied by him who has no comprehension whatever of the laws of organic evolution, and is totally lacking in the historical sense.
— from Zionism and Anti-Semitism by Max Simon Nordau

I don't want you to become a mere benevolent automaton set aside for church work, and charities; getting solemn and thin, with patient curves deepening around your mouth, and loneliness looking out of— "'Eyes, meek as gentle Mercy's at the throne of heaven.'" "To be a happy wife is the dream of womanhood, and if the day should ever dawn when God gives me that crown of joy, I shall wear it gladly, proudly, and feel that this world has yielded me its richest blessing; but, Alma, to-day I know no man whom I could marry with the hope of that perfect union which alone sanctions and hallows wedded love.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

"Mother," she breathed, with her last of mortal breath;--was it a farewell to that loved one of earth, or did she joyfully greet her sainted mother, who awaited the coming of her child to her home in the skies, where "the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes?"
— from Natalie Or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds by Ferna Vale

"I am informed of a secret friend of mine," wrote Sir John Hacket, "that when the queen here had read the letters which she received of late out of England, the tears came to her eyes with very sad countenance.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude

Matters were getting to a deadlock; the officials appeared to be asking us what was the object of our journey, and we could only insist on the intense love of our English Consul.
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins

True, an elevated mind may easily place itself above a sense of injuries; a noble spirit retains no resentful recollections; a great soul revenges itself by a generous clemency; but it is an absurd contradiction to require that a man shall entertain feelings of tenderness and regard for [Pg 173] those whom he knows to be bent on his destruction; this love of our enemies, which Christianity is so vain of having promulgated, turns out, then, to be an impracticable commandment, belied and denied by every Christian at every moment of his life.
— from Letters to Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

I had to either saw his legs off or else have him layin' down.
— from West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon

But this savage task is the last one on earth for which his fine-grained nature was fitted.
— from An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. (Henry Noble) MacCracken

Roper and Mrs. Upjohn go to Lily , one on each side of her, and try to read the 214 card.
— from The 'Mind the Paint' Girl: A Comedy in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

And he certainly can have no absolute power over the whole family, who has but a very limited one over every individual in it.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke