Chapter M (4)

=My heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky: / So was it when my life began, / So is it now I am a man; / So be it when I shall grow old, / Or let me die.= _Wordsworth._

=My heart is true as steel.= _Mid. N. Dream_, 50 ii. 2.

=My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb, and flow; / And many a beautiful pearl / Lies hid in its depths below.= _Heine._

=My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here.= _Burns._

=My highest wish is to find within the God whom I find everywhere without.= _Kepler._

=My house is my castle.= _Pr._

=My house, my house, though thou art small, / Thou art to me the Escurial.= _Pr._

="My ideal of a society is one in which I would= 5 =be guillotined as a Conservative."= _Proudhon, to Prince Napoleon._

=My inheritance how wide and fair! / Time is my seed-field, to Time I'm heir.= _Goethe._

=My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.= _Emerson._

=My joy is death;--/ Death, at whose name I oft have been afeared, / Because I wish'd this world's eternity.= 2 _Hen. VI._, ii. 4.

=My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.= _Fichte._

=My mind to me a kingdom is, / Such perfect joy= 10 =therein I find.= _Byrd._

=My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills my father feeds his flock.= _Home._

=My notions of life are much the same as they are about travelling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road, but, after all, one wants to be at rest.= _Southey._

=My offence is rank; it smells to heaven.= _Ham._, iii. 3.

=My only books / Were woman's looks,--/ And folly's all they've taught me.= _Moore._

=My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in= 15 =strength and sureness the moment a second mind has adopted it.= _Novalis._

=My pen was never dipped in gall.= _Crébillon._

=My perception of a fact is as much a fact as the sun.= _Emerson._

=My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, / And makes as healthful music.= _Ham._, iii. 4.

=My purposes lie in the churchyard.= _Philip Henry._

=My rigour relents: I pardon something to the= 20 =spirit of liberty.= _Burke._

=My son, be not now negligent, for the Lord hath chosen thee to stand before Him.= _Apoc._

=My son is my son till he have got him a wife, / But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.= _Pr._

=My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. / Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind. / What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? / This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.= _Quarles._

=My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.= _Tennyson._

=My way of life / Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow= 25 =leaf; / And that which should accompany old age, / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but in their stead, / Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath / Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.= _Macb._, v. 3.

=My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; /= =Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.= _Ham._, iii. 3.

=My yoke is easy and my burden light.= _Jesus._

=Myn leeren is spelen, myn spelen is leeren=--My learning is play, and my play is learning. _Van Alphen._

=Mysteries are due to secrecy.= _Bacon._

=Mysteries which must explain themselves are= 30 =not worth the loss of time which a conjecture about them takes up.= _Sterne._

=Mysterious to all thought, / A mother's prime of bliss, / When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.= _Keble._

=Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun; the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying influence from the want of a body.= _Colton._

=Mystic, deep as the world's centre, are the roots a man has struck into his native soil; no tree that grows is rooted so.= _Carlyle._

=Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for a universal one.= _Emerson._

=Mythology is not religion. It may rather be= 35 =regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.= _Hare._

N.

=N'aboyez pas à la lune=--Do not cry out to no purpose (_lit._ don't bark at the moon). _Fr. Pr._

=N'est on jamais tyran qu'avec un diadème?=--Is a man never a tyrant except he wear a crown? _Chénier._

=N'importe=--No matter. _Fr._

=N'oubliez=--Do not forget. _M._

=Naboth was right to hold on to his home.= 40 =There were garnered memories that all the wealth of Ahab could not buy.= _Ward Beecher._

=Nace en la huerta lo que no siembra el hortelano=--More grows in the garden than the gardener ever sowed there. _Sp. Pr._

=Nach Canossa gehen wir nicht=--We are not going to Canossa (where Henry IV. humbled himself before the Pope). _Bismarck._

=Nach Ehre geizt die Jugend; / Lass dich den Ehrgeiz nicht verführen=--Youth is covetous of honour; let not this covetousness seduce thee. _Schiller._

=Nach Freiheit strebt der Mann, das Weib nach Sitte=--The man strives after freedom, the woman after good manners. _Goethe._

=Nach Golde drängt, / Am Golde hängt, / Doch= 45 =alles. Ach, wir Armen!=--Yet after gold every one presses, on gold everything hangs. Alas! we poor ones. _Goethe._

=Nach Gottes Wesenheit ist gar nicht dein Beruf zu forschen; forsche du nach Wesen, die er schuf=--Thou art not required to search into the nature of God, but into the nature of the beings which he has created. _Rückert._

=Nacheifern ist beneiden=--To emulate is to envy. _Lessing._

=Nachgeben stillt allen Krieg=--Yielding stills all war. _Ger. Pr._

=Nacht muss es sein, wo Friedlands Sterne strahlen=--It must be night where Friedland's stars shine. _Schiller._

=Næ amicum castigare ob meritam noxiam / Immune est facinus=--Verily, it is a thankless office to censure a friend for a fault when he deserves it. _Plaut._

=Nae butter 'll stick to my bread,= _i.e._, no good fortune ever comes my way. _Sc. Pr._

=Nae freen' like the penny.= _Sc. Pr._

=Nae fules like auld fules.= _Sc. Pr._

=Nae man can be happy without a friend, nor= 5 =be sure of him till he's unhappy.= _Sc. Pr._

=Nae man can live at peace unless his neighbours let him.= _Sc. Pr._

=Nae man can mak' his ain hap= (destiny). _Sc. Pr._

=Nae man can tether time or tide.= _Burns._

=Nae man can thrive unless his wife will let him.= _Sc. Pr._

=Nae man has a tack= (lease) =o' his life.= _Sc._ 10 _Pr._

=Nae man is wise at a' times, nor wise on a' things.= _Sc. Pr._

=Nae treasures nor pleasures / Could mak' us happy lang, / The heart aye's the part aye / That mak's us right or wrang.= _Burns._

=Nae wonder ye're auld like; ilka thing fashes= (bothers) =ye.= _Sc. Pr._

=Naething is a man's truly but what he cometh by duly.= _Sc. Pr._

=Naething is got without pains but an ill name.= 15 _Sc. Pr._

=Naething is got without pains except dirt and long nails.= _Sc. Pr._

=Naething is ill said if it's no ill ta'en.= _Sc. Pr._

=Nager entre deux eaux=--To waver between two parties. _Fr._

=Naiv muss jedes wahre Genie sein, oder es ist keines=--Every true genius must be natural, or it is none. _Schiller._

=Naked truth is out of place before the eyes of= 20 =the profane vulgar; it can only make its appearance thickly veiled.= _Schopenhauer._

=Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body; and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open.= _Bacon._

=Nam de mille fabæ modiis dum surripis unum, / Damnum est, non facinus mihi pacto lenius isto=--If from a thousand bushels of beans you steal one, my loss, it is true, is in this case less, but not your villany. _Hor._

=Nam dives qui fieri vult, / Et cito vult fieri=--He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so quickly too. _Juv._

=Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor=--I regard that man as lost who has lost his sense of shame. _Plaut._

=Nam et majorum instituta tueri, sacris cerimoniisque= 25 =retinendis, sapientis est=--For it is the part of a wise man to protect the institutions of his forefathers by retaining the sacred rites and ceremonies.

=Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis, / Nec vixit male qui natus moriensque fefellit=--Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. _Hor._

=Nam nunc mores nihil faciunt quod licet, nisi quod lubet=--Nowadays it is the fashion to make nothing of what is proper, but only what is pleasant. _Plaut._

=Nam pro jucundis aptissima quæque dabunt Di. / Carior est illis homo quam sibi=--The gods will give what is most suitable rather than what is most pleasing; man is dearer to them than he is to himself. _Juv._

=Nam quæ inscitia est adversum stimulum calces=--It is the height of folly to kick against the pricks (_lit._ the goad). _Ter._

=Nam quum magna malæ superest audacia= 30 =causæ, / Creditur a multis fiducia=--When great impudence comes to the help of a bad cause, it is taken by many for honest confidence. _Juv._

=Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum / Facti crimen habet=--He who secretly meditates a crime has all the guilt of the deed. _Juv._

=Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet!=--Your property is in peril surely if your neighbour's house is on fire! _Hor._

=Nam vitiis nemo sine nascitur; optimus ille est, / Qui minimis urgetur=--No man is born without faults; he is the best who is influenced by the fewest. _Hor._

=Namen nennen dich nicht! Dich bilden Griffel und Pinsel sterblicher Künstler nicht nach!=--Names do not name thee! Graver and pencil of mortal artist can give no idea of thee! _Ueltzen._

=Names alter, things never alter.= _Wm. Blake._ 35

=Nane are so weel but they hope to be better.= _Sc. Pr._

=Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the Absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.= _Goethe._

=Napoleon, for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces almost half a world.= _Goethe._

=Narrative is linear, but Action, having breadth and depth as well as length, is solid.= _Carlyle._

=Narratur et prisci Catonis / Sæpe mero caluisse= 40 =virtus=--It is said that the virtue even of the elder Cato was often warmed by wine. _Hor._

=Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet=--We are born but to die (_lit._ die in being born), and our end hangs on to our beginning. _Manilius._

=Nascimur poetæ, fimus oratores=--We are born poets, we become orators. _Cic._

=Natales grate numeras? ignoscis amicis? / Lenior et melior fis accedente senecta?=--Do you count your birthdays thankfully? forgive your friends? grow gentler and better with advancing age? _Hor._

=Natio comœda est=--The nation is composed of actors. _Juv._

=National character varies as it fades under invasion= 45 =or corruption; but if ever it glows again into a new life, that life must be tempered by the earth and sky of the country itself.= _Ruskin._ (?)

=National enthusiasm is the great nursery of genius.= _Tuckermann._

=National suffering is, if thou wilt understand the words, verily a judgment of God; it has ever been preceded by national crime.= _Carlyle._

=Nations and empires flourish and decay, / By turns command, and in their turn obey.= _Dryden, after Ovid._

=Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.= _Jean Paul._

=Nations are only transitional forms of humanity; they must undergo obliteration, as do the transitional forms offered by the animal series. There is no more an immortality for them than there is an immobility for an embryo or any one of the manifold forms passed through in its progress of development.= _Draper._

=Nations, like individuals, are born, proceed through a predestined growth, and die. One comes to its end at an early period and in an untimely way; another, not until it has gained maturity. One is cut off by feebleness in its infancy, another is destroyed by civil disease, another commits political suicide, another lingers in old age. But for every one there is an orderly way of progress to its final term, whatever that term may be.= _Draper._

=Natur und Kunst, sie scheinen sich zu fliehen, / Und haben sich, eh' man es denkt, gefunden=--Nature and art seem to shun each other, and have met (_lit._ found each other) ere one is aware. _Goethe._

=Natura beatis / Omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti=--Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we but knew how to use her gifts. _Claud._

=Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa=--Nature 5 fashioned him, and then broke the mould. _Ariost._

=Natura ipsa valere, et mentis viribus excitari, et quasi quodam divino spiritu afflari=--To be strong by nature, to be urged on by the native powers of the mind, and to be inspired by a divine spirit, as it were. _Cic._

=Natura naturans=--Nature formative.

=Natura naturata=--Nature passive; nature formed.

=Natura nihil agit frustra=--Nature does nothing in vain.

=Natura non facit saltus=--Nature makes no 10 leaps.

=Natura, quam te colimus inviti quoque=--O Nature, how we bow to thee even against our will. _Sen._

=Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.= _Bacon._

=Natural abilities can almost make up for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation for want of natural abilities.= _Schopenhauer._

=Natural knowledge is come at by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing, and pursuing intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world.= _Bishop Butler._

=Natural objects always did and do weaken,= 15 =deaden, and obliterate imagination in me.= _Wm. Blake._

=Natural selection is the principle by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved.= _Darwin._

=Naturalia non sunt turpia=--Natural things are without shame.

=Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret=--Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she will every time come rushing back. _Hor._

=Nature abhors a vacuum.= _Pr._

=Nature admits no lie.= _Carlyle._ 20

=Nature acts towards us like an Oriental potentate with Mamelukes under him, whom he employs for some mysterious purpose, but to whom he never shows himself in person.= _Renan._

=Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.= _Carlyle._

=Nature alone is permanent.= _Longfellow._

=Nature alone knows what she means.= _Goethe._

=Nature always leaps to the surface, and manages= 25 =to show what she is.= _Boileau._

=Nature always speaks of spirit.= _Emerson._

=Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. To a man labouring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.= _Emerson._

=Nature and art are too grand to go forth in pursuit of aims; nor is it necessary that they should, for there are relations everywhere, and relations constitute life.= _Goethe._

=Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem.= _Emerson._

=Nature and Heaven command you, at your= 30 =peril, to discern worth from unworth in everything, and most of all in man.= _Ruskin._

=Nature and love cannot be concealed.= _Ger. Pr._

=Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; / God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.= _Pope._

=Nature and truth, though never so low or vulgar, are yet pleasing when openly and artlessly represented.= _Pope._

=Nature builds upon a false bottom, seeks herself what she values in others, and is oftentimes deceived and disappointed. Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty= 35 =breaks in everywhere.= _Emerson._

=Nature cannot but always act rightly, quite unconcerned as to what may be the consequences.= _Goethe._

=Nature counts nothing that she meets with base, / But lives and loves in every place.= _Tennyson._

=Nature, crescent, does not grow alone / In thews and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, / The inward service of the mind and soul / Grows wide withal.= _Ham._, i. 3.

=Nature does more than supply materials; she also supplies powers.= _J. S. Mill._

=Nature does not cocker us; we are children,= 40 =not pets; she is not fond; everything is dealt to us without fear or favour, after severe, universal laws.= _Emerson._

=Nature does not like to be observed, and likes that we should be her fools and playmates.= _Emerson._

=Nature does not make all great men, more than all other men, in the self-same mould.= _Carlyle._

=Nature draws with greater force than seven oxen.= _Ger. Pr._

=Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.= _Sen._

=Nature fashions no creature without implanting in it the strength needful for its action and duration.= _Carlyle._

=Nature forces on our heart a Creator; history, a Providence.= _Jean Paul._

=Nature gives healthy children much; how much! Wise education is a wise unfolding of this; often it unfolds itself better of its own accord.= _Goethe._

=Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights.= _Goethe._

=Nature glories in death more than in life. The= 5 =month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming.... Every green thing loves to die in bright colours.= _Ward Beecher._

=Nature goes her own way; and all that to us seems an exception, is really according to order.= _Goethe._

=Nature had made occupation a necessity; society makes it a duty; habit may make it a pleasure.= _Capelle._

=Nature has directly formed woman to be a mother, only indirectly to be a wife; man, on the contrary, is rather made to be a husband than a father.= _Jean Paul._

=Nature has given to each one all that as a man he needs, which it is the business of education to develop, if, as most frequently happens, it does not develop better of itself.= _Goethe._

=Nature has lent us tears--the cry of suffering= 10 =when the man at last can bear it no longer.= _Goethe._

=Nature has made man's breast no windows / To publish what he does within doors, / Nor what dark secrets there inhabit, / Unless his own rash folly blab it.= _Butler._

=Nature has made provision for all her children; the meanest is not hindered in its existence even by that of the most excellent.= _Goethe._

=Nature has no feeling; the sun gives his light to good and bad alike, and moon and stars shine out for the worst of men as for the best.= _Goethe._

=Nature has no moods; they belong to man alone.= _Auerbach._

=Nature has planted passions in the heart of= 15 =man for the wisest purposes both of religion and life.= _Fox._

=Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of man's own making.= _Addison._

=Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. / Some that will evermore peep through their eyes / And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper; / And other of such vinegar aspect / That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, / Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.= _Mer. of Venice_, i. 1.

=Nature hath made nothing so base but can / Read some instruction to the wisest man.= _Aleyn._

=Nature here shows art, / That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.= _Mid. N. Dream_, ii. 8.

=Nature holds an immense uncollected debt= 20 =over every man's head.= _Ward Beecher._

=Nature in women is so nearly allied to art.= _Goethe._

=Nature in you stands on the very verge / Of her confine.= _King Lear_, ii. 4.

=Nature is a friend to truth.= _Young._

=Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure.= _Emerson._

=Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always= 25 =and never the same.= _Emerson._

=Nature is a Sibyl, who testifies beforehand to what has been determined from all eternity, and was not to be realised till late in time.= _Goethe._

=Nature is a vast trope, and all particular natures are tropes.= _Emerson._

=Nature is always kind enough to give even her clouds a humorous lining.= _Lowell._

=Nature is always lavish, even prodigal.= _Goethe._

=Nature is always like herself.= _Linnæus._ 30

=Nature is always mysterious.= _Ward._

=Nature is always right, and most profoundly so= (_am gründlichsten_) =just there where we least comprehend her.= _Goethe._

=Nature is an Æolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.= _Novalis._

=Nature is avariciously frugal; in matter it allows no atom to elude her grasp; in mind no thought or feeling to perish. It gathers up the fragments that nothing be lost.= _Dr. Thomas._

=Nature is beyond all teaching.= _Pr._ 35

=Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God.= _Cowper._

=Nature is commanded by obeying her.= _Bacon._

=Nature is content with little, grace with less, but lust with nothing.= _Matthew Henry._

=Nature is despotic, and will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her authority by the pertest of her sons.= _Emerson._

=Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old= 40 =head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.= _Emerson._

=Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the lawgiver is before the law-receiver.= _Emerson._

=Nature is good, but she is not the best.= _Carlyle._

=Nature is indeed adequate to Fear, but to Reverence not adequate.= _Goethe._

=Nature is just towards men. It recompenses them for their sufferings; it renders them laborious, because to the greatest toils it attaches the greatest rewards.= _Montesquieu._

=Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest= 45 =way to her ends.= _Emerson._

=Nature is not an Aggregate but a Whole.= _Carlyle._

=Nature is not fixed, but fluid; spirit alters, moulds, makes it.= _Emerson._

=Nature is rich; those two eggs you ate to breakfast this morning might, if hatched, have peopled the world with poultry.= _Carlyle._

=Nature is sometimes subdued, but seldom extinguished.= _Bacon._

=Nature is still the grand agent in making= 50 =poets.= _Carlyle._

=Nature is the art of God.= _Sir Thomas Browne._

=Nature is the best posture-master.= _Emerson._

=Nature is the immense shadow of man.= _Emerson._

=Nature is the living, visible garment of God.= _Goethe._

=Nature is the only book that teems with meaning on every page.= _Goethe._

=Nature knows how to convert evil to good; Nature utilises misers, fanatics, showmen, egotists to accomplish her ends; but we must not think better of the foible for that.= _Emerson._

=Nature knows no equality; her sovereign= 5 =law is subordination and dependence.= _Vauvenargues._

=Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.= _Goethe._

=Nature listening stood whilst Shakespeare play'd, / And wonder'd at the work herself had made.= _Churchill._

=Nature made every fop to plague his brother, / Just as one beauty mortifies another.= _Pope._

=Nature makes us vagabonds, the world makes us respectable.= _Alexander Smith._

=Nature meant to make woman her masterpiece,= 10 =but committed a mistake in the choice of the clay; she took it too fine.= _Lessing._

=Nature must obey necessity.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.

=Nature, mysterious even under the light of day, is not to be robbed of her veil; and what she does not choose to reveal you will not extort from her with levers and screws.= _Goethe._

=Nature needs little, fancy= (_Wahn_) =much.= _Gr. Pr._

=Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her.= _Wordsworth._

=Nature never hurries; atom by atom, little= 15 =by little, she achieves her work.= _Emerson._

=Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage and bad habits have deformed a fair and lovely creation.= _Sterne._

=Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul.= _Emerson._

=Nature owns no man who is not a martyr withal.= _Carlyle._

=Nature passes nurture.= _Pr._

=Nature respects race and not hybrids.= _Knox._ 20

=Nature sent women into the world that they might be mothers and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered, and from whom none can be obtained.= _Jean Paul._

=Nature smiles as sweet, I ween, / To shepherds as to kings.= _Burns._

=Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man; only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.= _Emerson._

=Nature, study, and practice must combine to ensure proficiency in any art.= _Arist._

=Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom= 25 =which cannot help itself.= _Emerson._

=Nature takes as much pains in the forming of a beggar as an emperor.= _Pr._

=Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.= _Cor._

=Nature transcends all our moods of thought, and its secret we do not yet find.= _Emerson._

=Nature trips us up when we strut.= _Emerson._

=Nature understands no jesting; she is always= 30 =true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.= _Goethe._

="Nature veils God," but what I see of Him in nature is not veiled.= _Goethe._

=Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.= _Carlyle._

=Nature will not be Buddhist; she resents generalising, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million of fresh particulars.= _Emerson._

=Nature without discipline is of small force, and discipline without nature more feeble.= _John Lily._

=Nature without learning is like a blind man;= 35 =learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete.= _Plutarch._

=Nature works after such eternal, necessary, divine laws, that the Deity himself could alter nothing in them.= _Goethe, after Spinoza._

=Nature works on the method of all for each and each for all.= _Emerson._

=Nature works very hard, and only hits the white once in a million throws. In mankind, she is contented if she yields one master in a century.= _Emerson._

=Nature's above art.= _Lear_, iv. 6.

=Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.= 40 _Duke of Buckingham._

=Nature's shadows are ever varying.= _Wm. Blake._

=Nature's tears are Reason's merriment.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 5.

=Natures that have much heat, and great and violent desires and perturbations, are not ripe for action till they have passed the meridian of their years.= _Bacon._

=Natürlicher Verstand kann fast jeden Grad von Bildung ersetzen, aber keine Bildung den natürlichen Verstand=--Natural intelligence may make up almost every step in culture, but no culture make up for natural intelligence. _Schopenhauer._

=Natus nemo=--Not a born soul. _Plaut._ 45

=Natus sum; esuriebam, quærebam; nunc repletas requiesco=--I was born; I felt hungry, and sought for food; now that I am satiated, I lay me down to rest.

=Naufragium in portu facere=--To make shipwreck in port. _Quinct._

=Nay! evermore, / All things and thoughts, both new and old, are writ / Upon the unchanging human heart and soul.= _Lewis Morris._

=Nay, let us seek at home to find / Fit harvest for the brooding mind, / And find, since thus the world grows fair, / Duty and pleasure everywhere.= _Lewis Morris._

=Nay, that's past praying for.= 1 _Henry IV._, 50 ii. 4.

=Nay, then, farewell! / I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, / And, from that full meridian of my glory, / I haste now to my setting: I shall fall / Like a bright exhalation in the evening, / And no man see me more.= _Wolsey, in Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.

=Ne Æsopum quidem trivit=--He is a backward pupil (_lit._ he has not yet thumbed Æsop).

=Ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito=--Yield not to misfortunes, but rather go more boldly to meet them. _Virg._

=Ne depugnes in alieno negotio=--Do not take up the cudgels in another man's affairs. _Pr._

=Ne exeat regno=--Let him not go out of the kingdom. (A writ to prevent a person leaving the country). _L._

=Ne faut-il que délibérer? / La cour en conseillers= 5 =foisonne: / Est-il besoin d'exécuter? / L'on ne rencontre personne=--Is a matter to be discussed? the council chamber is full of advisers. Is there something to be done? the chamber is empty. _La Font._

=Ne forçons point notre talent; / Nous ne ferions rien avec grâce=--Let us not force our faculty; we shall in that case do nothing to good effect. _La Font._

=Ne fronti crede=--Trust not to appearances.

=Ne Hercules quidem contra duos=--Not even Hercules could contend against two at once.

=Ne Jupiter quidem omnibus placet=--Not even Jupiter can please everybody. _Pr._

=Ne nimium=--Not too much. _M._ 10

=Ne obliviscaris=--Do not forget. _M._

=Ne plus ultra=--What cannot be surpassed; perfection (_lit._ no more beyond).

=Né pour la digestion=--Born merely to consume good things. _La Bruyère._

=Ne quid detrimenti respublica capiat=--See that the commonwealth suffer no detriment.

=Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non= 15 =audeat=--Let him not dare to say anything that is false, nor let him dare to say what is not true. _Cic._

=Ne quid nimis=--Let there be no excess. _M._

=Ne sutor supra crepidam=--Let the cobbler stick to his last. _Pliny._

=Ne te longis ambagibus ultra / Quam satis est morer=--To make a long story short (_lit._ not to detain you by long digressions more than enough). _Hor._

=Ne te quæsiveris extra=--Seek not thyself outside of thyself.

=Ne tempora perde precando=--Lose not the time 20 that offers itself by praying. _Ovid._

=Ne tentes, aut perfice=--Either attempt not, or go through with it. _M._

=Ne vile fano=--Bring nothing base to the temple. _M._

=Ne vile velis=--Incline to nothing vile. _M._

=Near and far do not belong to the eternal world, which is not of space and time.= _Carlyle._

=Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.= 25 _Pr._

=Nearer the kirk the farther frae grace.= _Sc. Pr._

=Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the plurality in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.= _Ruskin._

=Neat, not gaudy.= _Charles Lamb._

=Nec aspera terrent=--Not even hardships deter us. _M._

=Nec caput nec pedes=--In confusion; neither 30 head nor tail. _Pr._

=Nec cui de te plusquam tibi credas=--Do not believe any man more than yourself about yourself. _Pr._

=Nec cupias, nec metuas=--Neither desire nor fear. _M._

=Nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus=--Never let a god interfere unless a difficulty arise worthy of a god's interposition. _Hor._

=Nec domo dominus, sed domino domus honestanda est=--The master should not be graced by the mansion, but the mansion by the master. _Cic._

=Nec est ad astra mollis e terris via=--The 35 way from the earth to the stars is no soft one. _Sen._

=Nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo=--I neither have, nor want, nor care. _M._

=Nec lusisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum=--There is no shame in having led a wild life, but in not breaking it off. _Hor._

=Nec male notus eques=--A knight of good repute. _M._

=Nec meus audet / Rem tentare pudor, quam vires ferre recusent=--My modesty does not permit me to essay a thing which my powers are not equal to accomplish. _Virg._

=Nec minor est virtus, quam quærere, parta= 40 =tueri: / Casus inest illic; hic erit artis opus=--It is no less merit to keep what you have got than to gain it. In the one there is chance; the other will be a work of art. _Ovid._

=Nec mora, nec requies=--Neither delay nor cessation. _Virg._

=Nec morti esse locum=--There is no room for death._ Ovid._

=Nec obolum habet unde restim emat=--He hasn't a penny left to buy a halter. _Pr._

=Nec omnia, nec semper, nec ab omnibus=--Neither all, nor always, nor by all.

=Nec placida contentus quiete est=--Nor is he 45 contented with quiet repose. _M._

=Nec pluribus impar=--Not an unequal match for numbers. _M._

=Nec prece nec pretio=--Neither by entreaty nor by a bribe. _M._

=Nec, quæ præteriit, iterum revocabitur unda; / Nec, quæ præteriit, hora redire potest=--Neither can the wave which has passed by be again recalled, nor can the hour which has passed ever return. _Ovid._

=Nec quærere nec spernere honorem=--Neither to seek nor to despise honours. _M._

=Nec regi nec populo, sed utrique=--Neither for 50 king nor for people, but for both. _M._

=Nec scire fas est omnia=--It is not permitted us to know all things. _Hor._

=Nec si non obstatur propterea etiam permittitur=--That an act is not prohibited, it does not follow that it is permitted. _Cic._

=Nec sibi, sed toti genitum se credere mundo=--To think that he was born not for himself alone, but for the whole world. _Lucan._

=Nec soli cedit=--He yields not even to the sun. _M._

=Nec temere nec timide=--Neither rashly nor 55 timidly. _M._

=Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit / Occurrat=--And let it not concern you what you may do, but what you ought to do. _Claud._

=Nec timeo, nec sperno=--I neither fear nor despise. _M._

=Nec Veneris pharetris macer est, aut lampade fervet: / Inde faces ardent, veniunt a dote sagittæ=--He is not made thin by Venus' quiver, nor does he burn with her torch; it is from this that his fires are fed, from her dowry the arrows come. _Juv._

=Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus / Interpres=--Nor, as a faithful translator, should you be careful to render the original word for word. _Hor._

=Nec vidisse semel satis est, juvat usque morari, / Et conferre gradum, et veniendi discere causas=--Nor is it enough to have once seen him; they are delighted to linger near him, and to keep step with him, and to learn the reason of his coming. _Virg._

=Nec vultu destrue dicta tuo=--Do not discredit your words by your looks. _Ovid._

=Necessary patience in seeking the Lord is= 5 =better than he that leadeth his life without a guide.= _Ecclus._

=Necesse est cum insanientibus furere, nisi solus relinqueris=--You must be mad with the insane unless you wish to be left quite alone. _Petronius._

=Necesse est ut multos timeat, quem multi timent=--He whom many fear must necessarily fear many. _Syr._

=Necessità 'l c' induce, e non diletto=--Necessity, not pleasure, brings him here. _Dante._

=Necessitas non habet legem=--Necessity has no law.

=Necessity does everything well.= _Emerson._ 10

=Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.= _Goethe._

=Necessity is the mistress of the arts.= _Pr._

=Necessity is the mother of invention.= _Pr._

=Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.= _William Pitt._

=Necessity makes even cowards brave.= _Pr._ 15

=Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich.= _Tac._

=Necessity unites hearts.= _Ger. Pr._

=Necessity urges desperate measures.= _Cervantes._

=Necio es quien piensa que otros no piensan=--He is a fool who thinks that others don't think. _Sp. Pr._

=Need mak's an auld wife trot.= _Sc. Pr._ 20

=Needles and pins, needles and pins! / When a man marries his trouble begins.= _Pr._

=Needs must when the devil drives.= _Sc. Pr._

=Ne'er grudge and carp, / Though fortune use you hard and sharp.= _Burns._

=Ne'er let your gear owergang ye=, _i.e._, never let your wealth get the better of you. _Sc. Pr._

=Ne'er linger, ne'er o'erhasty be, / For time= 25 =moves on with measured foot.= _Goethe._

=Ne'er put a sword in a wud man's= (a madman's) =hand.= _Sc. Pr._

=Ne'er tak' a wife till ye ken what to do wi' her.= _Sc. Pr._

=Ne'er the rose without the thorn.= _Herrick._

=Ne'er trust muckle to an auld enemy or a new freend.= _Sc. Pr._

=Neglecta solent incendia sumere vires=--A fire, 30 if neglected, always gathers in strength. _Hor._

=Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.= _Feltham._

=Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed omnino dissoluti=--To be careless of what others think of us, not only indicates an arrogant, but an utterly abandoned character. _Cic._

=Nehmt die Gottheit auf in euren Willen, / Und sie steigt von ihrem Weltenthron=--Take the divine up into your will, and she descends from her world-throne. _Schiller._

=Nehmt die Stimmung wahr, / Denn sie kommt so selten=--Take advantage of the right mood, for it comes so seldom. _Goethe._

=Neid zu fühlen, ist menschlich; Schadenfreude= 35 =zu geniessen, teuflisch=--To feel envy is human; to joy in mischief is devilish. _Schopenhauer._

=Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For loan oft loses both itself and friend.= _Ham._, i. 3.

=Neither borrow money of a neighbour nor a friend, but of a stranger, where, paying for it, thou shalt hear no more of it.= _Lord Burleigh._

=Neither crow nor croak.= _Pr._

=Neither exalt your pleasures, nor aggravate your vexations, beyond their real and natural state.= _Johnson._

=Neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder / Shall= 40 =wholly do away, I ween, / The marks of that which once hath been.= _Coleridge._

=Neither hew down the whole forest, nor come home without wood.= _Serv. Pr._

=Neither lead nor drive.= _Pr._

=Neither our virtues nor vices are all our own.= _Johnson._

=Neither painting nor fighting feed men; nor can capital, in the form of money or machinery, feed them.= _Ruskin._

=Neither praise nor blame is the object of true= 45 =criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award--these are the true aims and duties of criticism.= _Simms._

=Neither rhyme nor reason.= _Shakespeare._

=Neither seek nor shun the fight.= _Gael. Pr._

=Neither sign a paper without reading it, nor drink water without seeing it.= _Sp. Pr._

=Neither wise men nor fools / Can work without tools.= _Pr._

=Neither woman nor man, nor any kind of creature= 50 =in the universe, was born for the exclusive, or even the chief, purpose of falling in love or being fallen in love with.... Except the zoophytes and coral insects of the Pacific Ocean, I am acquainted with no creature with whom it is the one or grand object.= _Carlyle._

=Neither women nor linen by candlelight.= _Pr._

[Greek: Nekros ou daknei]--A dead man doesn't bite. _Plutarch._

=Nem. con.=, abbrev. for =Nemine contradicente=--Nobody opposing.

=Nem. diss.=, abbrev. for =Nemine dissentiente=--Same as above.

=Nemesis checks, with cubit-rule and bridle, /= 55 =Immoderate deeds, and boastings rash and idle.= _ Anon._

=Nemesis is lame, but she is of colossal stature, like the gods.= _George Eliot._

=Nemo allegans suam turpitudinem audiendus est=--No one testifying to his own baseness ought to be heard. _L._

=Nemo dat quod non habet=--Nobody can give what he does not legally possess. _L._

=Nemo debet bis puniri pro uno delicto=--No man shall be twice punished for the same offence. _L._

=Nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa=--No one shall be molested twice for one and the same cause. _L._

=Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa=--No 5 one ought to be judge in his own cause. _L._

=Nemo doctus mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse=--No sensible man ever charged one with inconstancy who had merely changed his opinion. _Cic._

=Nemo est tam senex qui se annum non putat posse vivere=--There is no man so old as not to think he may live a year longer. _Cic._

=Nemo ex proprio dolo consequitur actionem=--No man can sue at law upon his own fraud. _L._

=Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam nunquam moriendi=--No man can ever obtain from the Pope a dispensation from death. _Thomas à Kempis._

=Nemo ita pauper vivit, quam pauper natus est=--No 10 one is so poor in life as he was when he was at birth.

=Nemo læditur nisi a seipso=--No man is harmed but by himself. _Pr._

=Nemo malus felix, minime corruptor=--No bad man is happy, least of all a seducer. _Juv._

=Nemo mathematicus genium indemnatus habebit=--No astronomer will be held a genius until he is condemned. _Juv._

=Nemo me impune lacessit=--No one provokes me with impunity. _M. of Scotland._

=Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit=--No man 15 is wise at all moments.

=Nemo patriam in qua natus est exuere nec ligeantiæ debitum ejurare possit=--No one can cast off his native country or abjure his allegiance to his sovereign. _L._

=Nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius injuriam=--No one can change what he proposes to enact to the damage of another. _L._

=Nemo potest nudo vestimenta detrahere=--You cannot strip a garment off a naked man. _Pr._

=Nemo potest personam diu ferre fictam=--No one can play a feigned part long. _Sen._

=Nemo præsumitur alienam posteritatem suæ= 20 =prætulisse=--No one is presumed to have preferred another's offspring to his own. _L._

=Nemo punitur pro alieno delicto=--No one must be punished for the fault of another. _L._

=Nemo quam bene vivat, sed quamdiu, curat: quum omnibus possit contingere ut bene vivat, ut diu nulli=--No one concerns himself with how well he should live, only how long: while none can count upon living long, all have the chance of living well. _Sen._

=Nemo repente fuit turpissimus=--No man ever became extremely wicked all at once. _Juv._

=Nemo sibi nascitur=--No one is born for himself. _Pr._

=Nemo solus sapit=--No man is wise by himself. 25 _Plaut._

=Nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare=--No one is held bound to criminate himself. _L._

=Nemo vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit=--There never was a great man who had not some divine inspiration. _Cic._

[Greek: Nêpioi, oud' isasin hosô pleon hêmisy pantos]--Fools, they don't even know how much half is more than the whole. _Hesiod, from Pittacus._

=Nequaquam satis in re una consumere curam=--It is by no means enough to spend all our care on a single object. _Hor._

=Neque culpa neque lauda teipsum=--Neither 30 blame nor praise yourself.

=Neque fœmina, amissa pudicitia, alia abnuerit=--When a woman has once lost her chastity, she will shrink from nothing. _Tac._

=Neque mala vel bona quæ vulgus putet=--Things are not to be judged either good or bad merely because the public think so. _Tac._

=Neque opinione sed natura constitutum est jus=--Not in opinion, but in nature is law founded. _Cic._

=Neque quies gentium sine armis neque arma sine stipendiis neque stipendia sine tributis haberi queunt=--The quiet of nations cannot be maintained without arms, nor can arms be maintained without pay, nor pay without taxation. _Tac._

=Neque semper arcum / Tendit Apollo=--Apollo does not always keep his bow bent. _Hor._

=Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit=--He is wise to no purpose who is not wise for himself. _Pr._

=Nervus rerum=--The sinews of things.

=Nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futuræ, / Et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis=--Man knows not the lot appointed him, and he cannot keep within bounds when elated by prosperity. _Virg._

=Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos / Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui=--I know not by what sweet charm our native soil attracts us to it, and does not suffer us ever to forget it. _Ovid._

=Nescio qua præter solitum dulcedine læti=--Elated 40 beyond usual by some unaccountable delight. _Virg._

=Nescire autem quid antea quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est ætas hominis, nisi memoria rerum veterum cum superioribus contexitur?=--To be unacquainted with events which took place before you were born, is to be always a child; for where is human life if the memory fails to connect past events with others before? _Cic._

=Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem=--You little know what a frightful thing it is to go to law. _Plaut._

=Nescit vox missa reverti=--A word once uttered can never be recalled. _Hor._

=Nessun maggior dolore / Che ricordarsi del tempo felice / Nella miseria=--There is no greater woe than the recollection in the midst of misery of happy days bygone. _Dante._

=Nessuno nasce maestro=--No one is born a 45 master. _It. Pr._

=Neu Regiment bringt neue Menschen auf, / Und früheres Verdienst veraltet schnell=--A new administration of affairs raises up new men, and qualifications formerly of service become soon antiquated. _Schiller._

=Neutral men are the devil's allies.= _Chapin._

=Never a tear bedims the eye / That time and patience will not dry; / Never a lip is curved in pain / That can't be kissed into smiles again.= _Bret Harte._

=Never anger / Made good guard for itself.= _Ant. and Cleo._, iv. 1.

=Never anything can be amiss / When simpleness and duty tender it.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, v. 1.

=Never ask a favour of a man until he has had his dinner.= _Punch._

=Never be afraid to doubt, if only you have the disposition to believe.= _Leighton._

=Never bray at an ass.= _Pr._ 5

=Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle.= _Pr._

=Never buy a pig in a poke.= _Pr._

=Never by reflection, only by doing what it lies on him to do, is self-knowledge possible to any man.= _Goethe._

=Never cackle till your egg is laid.= _Pr._

=Never confuse a myth with a lie.... The= 10 =thoughts of all the greatest and wisest men hitherto have been expressed through mythology.= _Ruskin._

=Never deal in mistakes; they aye bring mischances.= _Scott._

=Never deceive a friend.= _Hipparchus._

=Never desire to appear clever and make a show of your talents before men. Be honest, loving, kindly, and sympathetic in all you say and do. Cleverness will flow from you naturally if you have it, and applause will come to you unsought from those who know what to applaud; but the applause of fools is to be shunned.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._

=Never despise the day of small things.= _Pr._

=Never disregard what your enemies say.= _B._ 15 _R. Haydon._

=Never do anything of the rectitude of which you have a doubt.= _Pliny._

=Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.= _It. Pr._

=Never do things by halves.= _Pr._

=Never durst poet touch a pen to write / Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs; / O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, / And plant in tyrants mild humility.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.

=Never elated when one man's oppress'd; /= 20 =Never dejected while anothers bless'd.= _Pope._

=Never fall out with your bread and butter.= _Pr._

=Never find fault with the absent.= _Pr._

=Never fish in troubled waters.= _Pr._

=Never forget St. Paul's sentence, "Love is the fulfilling of the law." This is the steam of the social machine; but the steam requires regulation; it is regulated by intelligence and moderation.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._

=Never fry a fish till it's caught.= _Pr._ 25

=Never give up the ship.= _Pr._

=Never grudge a penny for a pennyworth.= _Pr._

=Never grumble nor mumble.= _Pr._

=Never hang a man twice for one offence.= _Pr._

=Never have an idle hour, or an idle pound.= _Pr._ 30

=Never hold a candle to the devil.= _Pr._

=Never indulge the notion that you have any absolute right to choose the sphere or the circumstances in which you are to put forth your powers of social action.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._

=Never is a lang term.= _Sc. Pr._

=Never is a long day.= _Pr._

=Never king dropped out of the clouds.= _Power._ 35

=Never lean on a broken staff.= _Pr._

=Never leave a certainty for an uncertainty.= _Pr._

=Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Never let any one see the bottom of your purse or your mind.= _It. Pr._

=Never let Fortune be thy mistress, nor Misfortune= 40 =thy maid.= _Bodenstedt._

=Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so.= _Fénelon._

=Never let your zeal outrun your charity; the former is but human, the latter is divine.= _Ballou._

=Never look a gift-horse in the mouth.= _Pr._

=Never look for a knot in a bulrush.= _Pr._

=Never look for birds of this year in the nests= 45 =of the last.= _Cervantes._

=Never make a jest of any Scripture expressions.= _Judge Hale._

=Never meet trouble half way.= _Pr._

=Never mind the future: be what you ought to be; the rest is God's affair.= _Amiel._

=Never mind who was your grandfather. What are you?= _Pr._

=Never morning wore / To evening, but some= 50 =heart did break.= _Tennyson._

=Never neglect small matters and expenses.= _It. Pr._

=Never offer to teach fish to swim.= _Pr._

=Never preach beyond your experience.= _Pr._

=Never put your arm out farther than you can draw it back again.= _Scott._

=Never put your hand into a wasp's nest.= _Pr._ 55

=Never read borrowed books. To be without books of your own is the abyss of penury. Don't endure it. And when you have to buy them, you'll think whether they're worth reading; which you had better, on all accounts.= _Ruskin to a young boy._

=Never repeat old grievances.= _Pr._

=Never risk a joke, even the least offensive in its nature and the most common, with a person who is not well-bred, and possessed of sense to comprehend it.= _La Bruyère._

=Never say die! / Up, man, and try!= _Pr._

=Never say of another what you would not have= 60 =him hear.= _Pr._

=Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be, / For the gentle wind doth move / Silently, invisibly.= _Wm. Blake._

=Never shirk the hardest work.= _Pr._

=Never sigh, but send.= _Pr._

=Never since Aaron's rod went out of practice, or even before it, was there such a wonder-working tool as a pen; greater than all recorded miracles have been performed by pens.= _Carlyle._

=Never speak ill of those whose bread you eat.= 65 _Pr._

=Never speak of love with scorn; / Such were direst treason; / Love was made for eve and morn, / And for every season.= _C. Kent._

=Never spur a willing horse.= _Pr._

=Never stint soap and water.= _Pr._

=Never swap horses while crossing a stream.= _Pr._

=Never talk half a minute without pausing and giving others an opportunity to strike in.= _Sydney Smith._

=Never tell in the parlour what you heard in the kitchen.= _Pr._

=Never tell your resolution before-hand.= _Wisdom._ 5

=Never that I could in searching find out, has man been, by time which devours much, deprived of any faculty whatsoever that he in any era was possessed of.= _Carlyle._

=Never throw a hen's egg at a sparrow.= _Pr._

=Never till now did young men, and almost children, take such a command in human affairs.= _Carlyle._

=Never title yet so mean could prove, / But there was eke a mind which did that title love.= _Shenstone._

=Never too old to turn; never too late to learn.= 10 _Pr._

=Never trouble yourself with trouble till trouble troubles you.= _Pr._

=Never trust a wolf with the care of lambs.= _Pr._

=Never try to prove what nobody doubts.= _Pr._

=Never venture all in one bottom.= _Pr._

=Never was scraper= (miser) =brave man.= _Herbert._ 15

=Never waste pains on bad ground; let it remain rough. Though properly looked after and cared for, it will be of best service so.= _Ruskin._

=Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure; emotion is easily propagated from the writer to the reader.= _Joubert._

=Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.= _Richter._

=Never write what you dare not sign.= _Pr._

=Never yet created eye / Could see across eternity.= 20 _Keble._

=Never yet has it been our fortune to fall in with any man of genius whose conclusions did not correspond better with his premises, and not worse, than those of other men; whose genius, once understood, did not manifest itself in a deeper, fuller, truer view of all things human and divine, than the clearest of your so-called laudable "practical men" had claim to.= _Carlyle._

=Never yet, since the proud selfish race / Of men began to jar, did passion give, / Nor can it ever give, a right decision.= _Thomson._

=Never yet / Was noble man but made ignoble talk.= _Tennyson._

=New acquests are more burden than strength.= _Bacon._

=New brooms sweep clean.= _Pr._ 25

=New, daring, and inspiring ideas are engendered only in a clear head over a glowing heart, as the richest wines grow over the volcanoes.= _F. Jacobs._

=New laws, new frauds.= _Pr._

=New lords, new laws.= _Pr._

=New-made honour doth forget men's names; / 'Tis too respective and too sociable, / For your conversion.= _King John_, i. 1.

=New presbyter is but old priest writ large.= 30 _Milton._

=New religion! We already, in our dim heads, know truths (of religion) by the thousand; and, yet in our dead hearts, we will not perform them by the ten, by the unit.= _Carlyle._

=New scenes impress new ideas, enrich the imagination, and enlarge the power of reason.= _Johnson._

=Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.= _Charles Lamb._

=Next in importance to the matter of books are their titles.= _Davies._

="Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as= 35 =a battle that has been won."= _Wellington, after Waterloo._

=Next to Christmas Day the most pleasant annual epoch in existence is the advent of the New Year.= _Dickens._

=Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.= _Thackeray._

=Next to nae wife, a gude wife is the best.= _Sc. Pr._

=Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.= _Bacon._