There shall no evil happen to the just. Bible.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and 30 there the weary be at rest. Bible.
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man. Bible.
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, / The earth and every common sight, / To me did seem / Apparelled in celestial light, / The glory and the freshness of a dream. / It is not now as it has been of yore; / Turn wheresoe'er I may, / By night or day, / The things which I have seen, I now can see no more. Wordsworth.
There was a time when the world acted upon books. Now books act upon the world. Joubert.
There was but one Moses to the thousands of Israel that entered Jordan. Ward Beecher.
There was never a nation great until it came 35 to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. C. D. Warner.
There was never good or ill but women had to do with it. Gaelic Pr.
There was never yet philosopher / Who could endure the toothache patiently. Much Ado, v. 1.
There was sense in the sentences, but the sum-total was nonsense. Criticism of a young preacher's discourse.