Chapter M (5)

=Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility= 40 =of relinquishing it.= _Disraeli._

=Next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing.= _Chesterfield._

=Next to the gods, of all man's possessions his soul is the mightiest, being the most his own.= _Plato._

=Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.= _Emerson._

=Next to the satisfaction I receive in the prosperity of an honest man, I am best pleased with the confusion of a rascal.= (?)

=Next to theology I give to music the highest= 45 =place and honour; and we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.= _Luther._

=Ni l'or ni la grandeur ne nous rendent heureux=--Neither wealth nor greatness render us happy. _La Font._

=Ni l'un ni l'autre=--Neither the one nor the other. _Fr._

=Ni trop haut, ni trop bas; c'est le souverain style=--Neither too high nor too low, that is the sovereign rule.

=Nice distinctions are out of the question upon occasions like those of speech, which return every hour.= _Paley, upon lying._

=Nicht alle sind Diebe, die der Hund anbellt=--All 50 are not thieves whom the dog barks at. _Ger. Pr._

=Nicht alles Wünschenswerte ist erreichbar; nicht alles Erkennenswerte ist erkennbar=--Not everything that is desirable is attainable, and not everything that is worth knowing is knowable. _Goethe._

=Nicht an die Güter hänge dein Herz, / Die das Leben vergänglich zieren! / Wer besitzt, der lerne verlieren; / Wer im Glück ist, der lerne den Schmerz!=--Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has, learn to lose, and him who is happy, familiarise himself with what may give pain. _Schiller._

=Nicht der Besitz, nur das Enthüllen, / Das leise Finden nur ist süss=--Not the possession, only the unveiling and quietly finding out is sweet. _Tiedge._

=Nicht der ist auf der Welt verwaist, / Dessen Vater und Mutter gestorben, / Sondern der für Herz und Geist / Keine Lieb' und kein Wissen erworben=--Not he whose father and mother are dead is orphaned in the world, but he who has won for heart and mind no love and no knowledge. _Rückert._

=Nicht die Kinder bloss speist man / Mit Märchen ab=--It is not children merely that are put off with stories. _Lessing._

=Nicht draussen im Strudel verrauschender Lust / Erwarte, das Glück dir zu finden: / Die Seligkeit wohnt in der eigenen Brust, / Hier musst du sie ewig begründen!=--Think not to find thy happiness out there in the whirl of riotous pleasure. Thy blessedness dwells in thy own breast; here must thou for ever establish it. _Heine._

=Nicht grösseren Vortheil wüsst' ich zu nennen /= 5 =Als des Feindes Verdienst erkennen=--I know not a greater advantage than a due appreciation of the worth of an enemy. _Goethe._

=Nicht immer am besten erfahren ist, / Wer am ältesten an Jahren ist, / Und wer am meisten gelitten hat, / Nicht immer die besten Sitten hat!=--He who is oldest in years is not always the best experienced, and he who has suffered most has not always the best morals. _Bodenstedt._

=Nicht immer macht das Kleid den Mann=--Clothes do not always make the man. _Zachariæ._

=Nicht in die ferne Zeit verliere dich! / Den Augenblick ergreife, der ist dein=--Lose not thyself in a far-off time. Seize thou the moment that is thine. _Schiller._

=Nicht in kalten Marmorsteinen, / Nicht in Tempeln dumpf und tot, / In den frischen Eichenhainen / Webt und rauscht der deutsche Gott=--Not in cold marble stones, not in temples damp and dead, but in fresh oak-groves weaves and rustles the German God. _Uhland._

=Nicht jede Besserung ist Tugend=--Not every 10 improvement is virtue. _Gellert._

=Nicht Kunst and Wissenschaft allein, / Geduld will bei dem Werke sein=--Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work. _Goethe._

=Nicht Rosen bloss, auch Dornen hat der Himmel=--Heaven has not only its roses, but also its thorns. _Schiller._

=Nicht so redlich wäre redlicher=--Not so honest were more honest. _Lessing._

=Nichts Abgeschmackters find' ich auf der Welt / Als einen Teufel, der verzweifelt=--I know nothing more mawkish than a devil who despairs. _Goethe._

=Nichts Böses thun ist gut; / Nichts Böses= 15 =wollen ist besser=--To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. _Claudius._

=Nichts führt zum Guten, was nicht natürlich ist=--Nothing leads to good that is not natural. _Schiller._

=Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art=--It is the manner of noble souls to do nothing by halves. _Wieland._

=Nichts ist dem Menschen so schwer zu tragen, / Als eine Reihe von guten Tagen=--No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. _Müller._

=Nichts ist göttlich, als was vernünftig ist=--Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. _Kant._

=Nichts ist höher zu schätzen, als der Wert des= 20 =Tages=--Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. _Goethe._

=Nichts ist so elend als ein Mann, / Der alles will, und der nichts kann=--Nothing is so miserable as a man who wills everything and can do nothing. _Claudius._

=Nichts stirbt, was wirklich gut und göttlich war=--Nothing that was really good and godlike dies. _Arndt._

=Nichts thun lehrt Uebel thun=--Doing nothing is a lesson in doing ill. _Ger. Pr._

=Nichtswürdig ist die Nation, die nicht / Ihr Alles freudig setzt an ihre Ehre=--Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honour. _Schiller._

=Nick does not pretend to be a gentleman.= 25 _Arbuthnot._

=Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.= _Haliburton._

=Nie kommt das Unglück ohne sein Gefolge=--Misfortune never comes without his retinue. _Heine._

=Niemand ist frei, der nicht über sich selbst Herr ist=--No man is free who is not lord over himself. _Claudius._

=Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält ohne es zu sein=--No one is more a slave than he who considers himself free without being so. _Goethe._

=Niemand weiss, wie weit seine Kräfte gehen,= 30 =bis er sie versucht hat=--No one knows how far his powers go till he has tried them. _Goethe._

=Niggardliness is not good husbandry.= _Addison._

=Night is a good herdsman; she brings all creatures home.= _Gael. Pr._

=Night is the mither= (mother) =o' thoughts.= _Sc. Pr._

=Night is the Sabbath of mankind, / To rest the body and the mind.= _Butler._

=Night! that great shadow and profile of the= 35 =day.= _Jean Paul._

=Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 5.

=Night's deepest gloom is but a calm, / That soothes the wearied mind; / The labour'd day's restoring balm, / The comfort of mankind.= _Leigh Hunt._

=Nightingales will not sing in a cage.= _Pr._

=Nihil a Deo vacat; opus suum ipse implet=--Nothing is void of God; His work everywhere is full of Himself. _Sen._

=Nihil ad rem= _or_ =versum=--Not to the purpose, or 40 point.

=Nihil agit qui diffidentem verbis solatur suis; / Is est amicus qui in re dubia re juvat, ubi re est opus=--He does nothing who seeks to console a desponding man with words; a friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for. _Plaut._

=Nihil aliud necessarium ut sis miser, quam ut te miserum credas=--Nothing else is necessary to make you wretched than to fancy you are so.

=Nihil cum fidibus graculo=--Jackdaws have nothing to do with a lute. _Gell._

=Nihil enim legit, quod non excerperet. Dicere etiam solebat, nullum esse librum tam malum, ut non aliqua parte prodesset=--He read no book which he did not make extracts from. He also used to say, "No book was so bad but good of some kind might be got out of it." _Pliny the Elder._

=Nihil eripit fortuna nisi quod et dedit=--Fortune takes nothing away but what she also gave. _Pub. Syr._

=Nihil est ab omni / Parte beatum=--There is nothing that is blessed in every respect. _Hor._

=Nihil est annis velocius!=--Nothing is swifter than our years. _Ovid._

=Nihil est aptius ad delectationem lectoris,= 5 =quam temporum varietates, fortunæque vicissitudines=--Nothing contributes more to the entertainment of a reader than the changes of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. _Cic._

=Nihil est quod credere de se / Non possit=--There is nothing that it (_i.e._, power, _potestas_) cannot believe itself capable of. _Juv._

=Nihil est quod Deus efficere non possit.=--There is nothing which the Deity cannot effect. _Cic._

=Nihil est tam utile, quod in transitu prosit=--Nothing is so useful as to be of profit after only a hasty study of it. _Sen._

=Nihil est tam volucre quam maledictum, nihil facilius emittitur, nihil citius excipitur, nihil latius dissipatur=--Nothing is no swift as calumny, nothing more easily uttered, nothing more readily received, nothing more widely disseminated. _Cic._

=Nihil hic nisi carmina desunt=--Nothing is wanting 10 here except a song. _Virg._

=Nihil honestum esse potest, quod justitia vacat=--Nothing can be honourable where justice is absent. _Cic._

=Nihil largiundo gloriam adeptus est=--He acquired glory without bribery. _Sall._

=Nihil morosius hominum judiciis=--Nothing so peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. _Erasmus._

=Nihil potest rex nisi quod de jure potest=--The king can do nothing but what the law allows. _L._

=Nihil quod est inconveniens est licitum=--Nothing 15 which is inconvenient is lawful. _L._

=Nihil scire est vita jucundissima=--To know nothing at all is the happiest life. _Pr._

=Nihil scriptum miraculi causa=--Nothing is written here to excite wonder, or for effect. _Tac._

=Nihil simul inventum est et perfectum=--Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once. _Coke._

=Nihil tam absurdum dici potest ut non dicatur a philosopho=--There is nothing so absurd but it may be said by a philosopher. _Cic._

=Nihil tam firmum est, cui periculum non sit= 20 =etiam ab invalido=--Nothing is so steadfast as to be free of danger from even the weakest. _Quint. Curt._

=Nihil tam munitum est, quod non expugnari pecunia possit=--Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. _Cic._

=Nihil turpius est quam gravis ætate senex, qui nullum aliud habet argumentum, quo se probet diu vixisse, præter ætatem=--There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world. _Sen._

=Nihil unquam peccavit, nisi quod mortua est=--She never once sinned but when she died. _Inscription on a wife's tomb in Rome._

=Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum=--He considered nothing done so long as anything remained to be done. _Lucan, of Julius Cæsar._

="Nil admirari" is the motto which men of the= 25 =world always affect, thinking it vulgar to wonder or be enthusiastic.= _Sir Egerton Brydges._

=Nil admirari prope est res una, Numici, / Solaque, quæ possit facere et servare beatum=--To wonder at nothing, Numicius, is almost the one and only thing which can make and keep men happy. _Hor._

=Nil æquale homini fuit illi=--There was no consistency in that man. _Hor._

=Nil agit exemplum litem quod lite resolvit=--An illustration which solves one difficulty by involving us in another settles nothing. _Hor._

=Nil consuetudine majus=--Nothing is more powerful than custom, or habit. _Ovid._

=Nil cupientium / Nudus castra peto=--Naked 30 myself, I make for the camp of those who desire nothing. _Hor._

=Nil debet=--He owes nothing. _L._

=Nil desperandum=--There is no ground for despair.

=Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro=--Let us despair of nothing while Teucer is our leader and we under his auspices. _Hor._

=Nil dicit=--He says nothing, _i.e._, he has no defence to make. _L._

=Nil dictu fœdum visuque hæc limina tangat, /= 35 =Intra quæ puer est=--Let nothing filthy to be said or seen touch this threshold, within which there is a boy. _Juv._

=Nil dictum quod non dictum prius=--There can be nothing said now which has not been said before. _L._

=Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico=--As long as I have my senses, there is nothing I would prefer to an agreeable friend. _Hor._

=Nil erit ulterius quod nostris moribus addat / Posteritas; eadem cupient facientque minores: / Omne in præcipiti vitium stetit=--There will be nothing left for posterity to add to our manners; our descendants will wish for and do the same things as we do; every vice has reached its culminating point. _Juv._

=Nil feret ad manes divitis umbra suos=--The ghost of the rich man will carry nothing to the shades below. _Ovid._

=Nil fuit unquam sic impar sibi=--Never was such 40 an inconsistent creature seen before. _Hor._

=Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, / Quam quod ridiculos homines facit=--Unhappy poverty has nothing in it more galling than this, that it makes men ridiculous. _Juv._

=Nil homini certum est=--There is nothing assured to mortals. _Ovid._

=Nil me officit unquam, / Ditior hic, aut est quia doctior; est locus uni / Cuique suus=--It never the least annoys me that another is richer or more learned than I; every one has his own place assigned him. _Hor._

=Nil mortalibus arduum est=--Nothing is too arduous for mortals. _Hor._

=Nil nisi cruce=--No hope but in the cross. _M._ 45

=Nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale fatentes=--Confessing that none like you has arisen before, none will ever arise. _Hor._

=Nil peccant oculi, si oculis animus imperet=--The eyes don't err if the mind governs them. _Pub. Syr._

=Nil proprium ducas quod mutari potest=--Never deem that your own which can be changed. _Pub. Syr._

=Nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi ducunt=--They deem nothing right except what seems good to themselves. _Hor._

=Nil sine magno / Vita labore dedit mortalibus=--Life has granted nothing to mankind save through great labour. _Hor._

=Nil sine te mei prosunt honores=--The honours 5 I obtain are nothing without thee. _Hor. to the Muse._

=Nil sole et sale utilius=--Nothing so useful as the sun and salt. _Pr._

=Nil spernat auris, nec tamen credat statim=--Let the ear despise nothing, nor yet be too ready to believe. _Phæd._

=Nil tam difficile est quod non solertia vincat=--There is nothing so difficult but skill will surmount it. _Pr._

=Nil tam inæstimable est quam animi multitudinis=--Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. _Sen._

=Nil temere novandum=--Make no rash innovations. 10 _L._

=Nil unquam longum est, quod sine fine placet=--Nothing is ever long which never ceases to please.

=Nimia cura deterit magis quam emendat=--Too much pains may injure rather than improve your work. _Pr._

=Nimia est voluptas, si diu abfueris a domo / Domum si redieris, si tibi nulla est ægritudo animo obviam=--It is a very great pleasure if, on your return home after a long absence, you are not confronted with anything to vex you. _Plaut._

=Nimia illæc licentia / Profecto evadet in aliquod magnum malum=--This extreme licentiousness will assuredly develop into some dire disaster. _Ter._

=Nimia subtilitas in jure reprobatur, et talis= 15 =certitudo certitudinem confundit=--Too much subtlety in law is condemned, and such certainty destroys certainty. _L._

=Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod / Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem=--There are few, I say, to whom this fellow should appear insane, since by far the majority of people are infected with the same malady. _Hor._

=Nimis uncis / Naribus indulges=--You indulge in swearing (_lit._ upturned nostrils) too much.

=Nimium altercando veritas amittitur=--In too eager disputation the truth is lost sight of. _Pr._

=Nimium ne crede colori=--Trust not too much to appearances. _Virg._

=Nimius in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis= 20 =amantior=--Too fastidious as regards truth, and with a greater liking for exactness than beauty. _Quinct._

=Nimm alles leicht! das Träumen lass und Grübeln! / So bleibst du wohlbewahrt vor tausend Uebeln=--Take everything easily; leave off dreaming and brooding; then wilt thou be safe-shielded from a thousand ills. _Uhland._

=Nimm die Welt, wie sie ist, nicht wie sie seyn sollte=--Take the world as it is, not as it should be. _Ger. Pr._

=Nimm wahr die Zeit; sie eilet sich, / Und kommt nicht wieder ewiglich=--Take thou good note of time; it hurries past thee, and comes not back again for ever. _Claudius._

=Nine tailors cannot make a man.= _Pr._

=Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense,= 25 =and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.= _Disraeli._

=Nine-tenths of our critics have told us little more of Shakespeare than what honest Franz Horn says his neighbours used to tell of him, "he was a great spirit, and stept majestically along."= _Carlyle._

=Nine things to sight required are: / The power to see, the light, the visible thing, / Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far; / Clear space, and time, the form distinct to bring.= _Sir John Davies._

=Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Nine tithes of times / Face-flatterer and back-biter are the same.= _Tennyson._

=Nineteen nay-says are half a grant.= _Allan_ 30 _Ramsay._

=Nisi caste, saltem caute=--If not chastely, at least cautiously.

=Nisi Dominus, frustra=--Unless the Lord be with us, all is vain. _M._

=Nisi prius=--Unless before. A judicial writ.

=Nisi utile est quod facias, stulta est gloria=--Unless what we do is useful, our glorying is vain. _Phæd._

=Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata=--We 35 are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. _Ovid._

=Nitor in adversum, nec me, qui cætera vincit / Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi=--I struggle against an opposing current; the torrent which sweeps away others does not overpower me, and I make head against the on-rushing stream. _Ovid._

="No," a monosyllable, the easiest learned by the child, but the most difficult to practise by the man, contains within it the import of a life, the weal or woe of an eternity.= _Johnson._

=No accidents are so unlucky that the prudent may not draw some advantage from them.= _La Roche._

=No affections and a great brain; these are the men to command the world.= _Disraeli._

=No age ever seemed the age of Romance to= 40 =itself.= _Carlyle._

=No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.= _Barton._

=No answer is also an answer.= _Pr._

=No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.= _Ruskin._

=No artist-work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.= _Charlotte Cushman._

=No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.= _Landor._

=No atheist denies a divinity, but only some name of a divinity; the God is still present there, working in that benighted heart, were it only as a god of darkness.= _Carlyle._

=No author can be as moral as his works, as no preacher is as pious as his sermons.= _Jean Paul._

=No author ever spared a brother; / Wits are= 5 =gamecocks to one another.= _Gay._

=No author is a man of genius to his publisher.= _Heine._

=No autumn fruit without spring blossoms.= _Pr._

=No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.= _Rich. III._, i. 2.

=No bees, no honey; / No work, no money.= _Pr._

=No belief of ours will change the facts or= 10 =reverse the laws of the spiritual universe; and it is our first business to discover the laws and to learn how the facts stand.= _Dr. Dale._

=No belief which is contrary to truth can be really useful.= _J. S. Mill._

=No bird ever flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food.= _Dut. Pr._

=No blank, no trifle, Nature made or meant.= _Young._

=No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again.= _Ruskin._

=No book that will not improve by repeated= 15 =readings deserves to be read at all.= _Carlyle._

=No book was ever written down by any but itself.= _Bentley._

=No ceremony that to great one 'longs, / Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, / The marshal's truncheon nor the judge's robe, / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.

=No chair is so much wanted (in our colleges) as that of a professor of books.= _Emerson._

=No chaos can continue chaotic with a soul in it.= _Carlyle._

=No character was ever rightly understood= 20 =until it had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance only, but of sympathy.= _Carlyle._

=No cheerfulness can ever be produced by effort which is itself painful.= _Goldsmith._

=No cloth is too fine for moth to devour.= _Pr._

=No compound of this earthly ball / Is like another all in all.= _Tennyson._

=No conflict is so severe as his who labours to subdue himself.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=No conquest can ever become permanent= 25 =which does not withal show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.= _Carlyle._

=No corn without chaff.= _Dut. Pr._

=No; creation, one would think, cannot be easy; your Jove has severe pains, and fire flames, in the head out of which an armed Pallas is struggling.= _Carlyle._

=No creature smarts so little as a fool.= _Pope._

=No crime is so great as daring to excel.= _Churchill._

=No cross, no crown.= _Quarles._ 30

=No diga la lengua par do pague la cabeza=--The tongue talks at the head's cost. _Sp. Pr._

=No distance breaks the tie of blood: / Brothers are brothers evermore; / Nor wrong, nor wrath of deadliest mood, / That magic may o'erpower.= _Keble._

=No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.= _Job, in Bible._

=No doubt every person is entitled to make and to think as much of himself as possible, only he ought not to worry others about this, for they have enough to do with and in themselves, if they too are to be of some account, both now and hereafter.= _Goethe._

=No dynamite will ever be invented that can= 35 =rule; it can but dissolve and destroy. Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern.= _Ruskin._

=No earnest man, in any time, ever spoke what was wholly meaningless.= _Carlyle._

=No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.= _C. Kingsley._

=No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.= _Lady Montagu._

=No errors are so mischievous as those of great men.= _Pr._

=No evil can touch him who looks on human= 40 =beauty; he feels himself at one with himself and with the world.= _Goethe._

=No evil dies so soon as that which has been patiently sustained.= _W. Secker._

=No evil is felt till it comes, and when it comes no counsel helps. Wisdom is always too early and too late.= _Rückert._

=No evil is without its compensation.= _Sen._

=No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.= _Sen._

=No experiment is dangerous the result of which= 45 =we have the courage to meet.= _Goethe._

=No expression of politeness but has its root in the moral nature of man.= _Goethe._

=No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, / All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.= _Moore._

=No fact in nature but carries the whole sense of nature.= _Emerson._

=No falsehood can endure / Touch of celestial temper.= _Milton._

=No fathers or mothers think their own children= 50 =ugly.= _Cervantes._

=No fishing like fishing in the sea.= _Pr._

=No flattery, boy; an honest man can't live by 't; / It is a little sneaking art, which knaves / Use to cajole and soften fools withal.= _Otway._

=No fool was ever so foolish, but some one thought him clever.= _Pr._

=No fountain so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom.= _Hawthorne._

=No friend a friend until he shall prove a friend.= 55 _Beaumont and Fletcher._

=No frost can freeze Providence.= _Pr._

=No gains without pains.= _Pr._

=No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes.= _Carlyle._

=No girl who is well bred, kind, and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners or of heart.= _Ruskin._

=No golden age ever called itself golden, but only expected one.= _Jean Paul._

=No good book or good thing of any sort shows its best face at first; nay, the commonest quality in a true work of art, if its excellence have any depth and compass, is that at first sight it occasions a certain disappointment.= _Carlyle._

=No good doctor ever takes physic.= _It. Pr._ 5

=No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.= _Ruskin._

=No good lawyer ever goes to law himself.= _It. Pr._

=No good or lovely thing exists in this world without its correspondent darkness; and the universe presents itself continually to mankind under the stern aspect of warning, or of choice, the good and the evil set on the right hand and the left.= _Ruskin._

=No good work whatever can be perfect; and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.= _Ruskin._

=No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.= 10 _Corn. Nepos._

=No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.= _Ward Beecher._

=No grain of sand / But moves a bright and million-peopled land, / And hath its Eden and its Eves, I deem.= _Blanchard._

=No grand doer in this world can be a copious speaker about his doings.= _Carlyle._

=No great composition was ever produced but with the same heavenly involuntariness in which a bird builds her nest.= _Ruskin._

=No great intellectual thing was ever done= 15 =by great effort.= _Ruskin._

=No great man was ever other than a genuine man.= _Carlyle._

=No great truth is allowed by Nature to be demonstrable to any person who, foreseeing its consequences, desires to refuse it.= _Ruskin._

=No greater hell than to be a slave to fear.= _Ben Jonson._

=No greater men are now than ever were.= _Emerson._

=No greater misfortune can befall a man than= 20 =to be the victim of an idea which has no hold on his life, still more which detaches him from it.= _Goethe._

=No greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.= _Pr._

=No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are past.= _Byron._

=No hay dulzura sin sudor=--No sweetness without sweat. _Sp. Pr._

=No hay tal razon como la del baston=--There is no argument like that of a stick. _Sp. Pr._

=No heart opens to sympathy without letting= 25 =in delicacy.= _J. M. Barrie._

=No Hecuba, by aid of rouge and ceruse, is a Helen made.= _Cowper._

=No herb will cure love.= _Pr._

=No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she may give birth to one.= _Jean Paul._

=No honestly exerted force can be utterly lost.= _Carlyle._

=No horse so blind as the blind mare.= _Pr._ 30

=No house without mouse; no throne without thorn.= _Pr._

=No human capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing; but we may see more and more of it the longer we look.= _Ruskin._

=No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.= _Ruskin._

=No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a stain from the struggle of life.= _Renan._

=No intellectual images are without use.= _Johnson._ 35

=No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve.= _Carlyle._

="No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips.= _Scott._

=No joy so great but runneth to an end; / No hap so hard but may in time amend.= _Robert Southwell._

=No joy without alloy.= _Pr._

=No knowledge is lost, but perfected, and= 40 =changed for much nobler, sweeter, greater knowledge.= _Baxter._

=No labour is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.= _S. Hieron._

=No law can be finally sacred to me but the law of my own nature.= _Emerson._

=No leaf moves but as God wills it.= _Sp. Pr._

=No legacy is so rich as honesty.= _All's Well_, iii. 5.

=No lie you can speak or act, but it will come,= 45 =after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's reality, and be presented there for payment, with the answer: "No effects."= _Carlyle._

=No literature is complete until the language in which it is written is dead.= _Longfellow._

=No longer pipe, no longer dance.= _Pr._

=No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at once, without severe reasons.= _Ruskin._

=No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following openly-declared purposes, and preaching candidly-beloved and trusted creeds.= _Ruskin._

=No man at bottom means injustice; it is always= 50 =for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends.= _Carlyle._

=No man at the head of affairs always wishes to be explicit.= _Macaulay._

=No man bathes twice in the same river.= _Heraclitus._

=No man beholdeth prosperity who doth not encounter danger; but having encountered danger, if he surviveth, he beholdeth it.= _Hitopadesa._

=No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.= _Johnson._

=No man can antedate his experience.= _Emerson._ 55

=No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger.= _La Roche._

=No man can be a good poet without first being a good man.= _Ben Jonson._

=No man can be a poet / That is not a good cook, to know the palates / And several tastes of the time.= _Ben Jonson._

=No man can be a hero in anything who is not first of all a hero in faith.= _Jacobi._

=No man can be brave who considers pain to be= 5 =the greatest evil of life; nor temperate, who considers pleasure to be the highest good.= _Cic._

=No man can be good, or great, or happy, except through inward efforts of his own.= _F. W. Robertson._

=No man can be said to have the spirit who does not walk in it, or to be born of the spirit until the spirit is born of him.= _Ed._

=No man can be so entirely a devil as to extinguish in himself the last ray of light.= _Th. Körner._

=No man can become largely rich by his personal toil, but only by discovery of some method of taxing the labour of others.= _Ruskin._

=No man can buy anything in the market with= 10 =gentility.= _Lord Burleigh._

=No man can, for a length of time, be wholly wretched, if there is not a disharmony (a folly and wickedness) within himself; neither can the richest Crœsus, and never so eupeptic, be other than discontented, perplexed, unhappy, if he be a fool.= _Carlyle._

=No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.= _Kossuth._

=No man can gather cherries in Kent at the season of Christmas.= _Pr._

=No man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree with that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.= _Colton._

=No man can learn what he has not preparation= 15 =for learning, however near to his eyes the object may be.= _Emerson._

=No man can live half a life when he has genuinely learned that it is only half a life. The other half, the higher half, must haunt him.= _Philips Brooks._

=No man can lose what he never had.= _Walton._

=No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.= _Pr._

=No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.= _Lowell._

=No man can quite emancipate himself from his= 20 =age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share.= _Emerson._

=No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.= _Noah Porter._

=No man can say in what degree any other person, besides himself, can be, with strict justice, called wicked.= _Burns._

=No man can see over his own height.= _Pr._

=No man can serve two masters.= _Jesus._

=No man can thoroughly master more than one= 25 =art or science.= _Hazlitt._

=No man can transcend his own individuality.= _Schopenhauer._

=No man doth safely appear abroad but he who can abide at home.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=No man doth safely rule but he that hath learned gladly to obey.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=No man doth safely speak but he who is glad to hold his peace.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=No man ever became, or can become, largely= 30 =rich merely by labour and economy.= _Ruskin._

=No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.= _Fisher Ames._

=No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.= _Emerson._

=No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might.= _Emerson._

=No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition.= _John Neale._

=No man flatters the woman he truly loves.= 35 _Tuckermann._

=No man had ever a point of pride but was injurious to him.= _Burke._

=No man has a claim to credit upon his own word, when better evidence, if he had it, may be easily produced.= _Johnson._

=No man has a prosperity so high and firm but two or three words can dishearten it.= _Emerson._

=No man has a right to say to his own generation, turning quite away from it, "Be damned."= _Carlyle to Emerson._

=No man has a worse friend than he brings= 40 =with him from home.= _Pr._

=No man has any data for estimating, far less right of judging, the results of a life of resolute self-denial, until he has had the courage to try it himself.= _Ruskin._

=No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him he gives him for mankind.= _Phillips Brooks._

=No man has worked, or can work, except religiously.= _Carlyle._

=No man hath a thorough taste of prosperity to whom adversity never happened.= (?)

=No man hath a velvet cross.= _Pr._ 45

=No man hath a virtue that he has not a glimpse of; nor any man an attaint, but he carries some stain of it.= _Troil. and Cress._, i. 2.

=No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.= _Jesus._

=No man is a good physician who has never been sick.= _Arab. Pr._

=No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre.= _Prince de Condé, from Plutarch._

=No man is always wise except a fool.= _Pr._ 50

=No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him; there is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil.= _Lowell._

=No man is born wise or learned.= _Pr._

=No man is either worthy of a good home here or a heaven hereafter that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.= _Capt. John Brown._

=No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.= _Sir W. Raleigh._

=No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty.= _Froude._

=No man is ever hurt but by himself.= _Diogenes._

=No man is ever paid for his real work, or should= 5 =ever expect or demand angrily to be paid; all work properly so called is an appeal from the seen to the unseen--a devout calling upon higher powers; and unless they stand by us, it will not be a work, but a quackery.= _Carlyle._

=No man is free who cannot command himself.= _Pythagoras._

=No man is good but as he wishes the good of others.= _Johnson._

=No man is justified in resisting by word or deed the authority he lives under for a light cause, be such authority what it may.= _Carlyle._

=No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.= _Sen._

=No man is poor who does not think himself so.= 10 =But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.= _Jeremy Taylor._

=No man is quite sane; each has a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.= _Emerson._

=No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.= _Haliburton._

=No man is so free as a beggar, and no man more solemnly a servant than an honest land-owner.= _Ruskin._

=No man is so happy as never to give offence.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=No man is so old but thinks he may live= 15 =another day.= _Pythagoras._

=No man is so sufficient as never to need assistance.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=No man is so tall that he need never stretch, nor so small that he need never stoop.= _Dan. Pr._

=No man is so worthy of envy as he that can be cheerful in want.= _Bp. Hall._

=No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.= _Ward Beecher._

=No man is the wiser for his learning.... Wit= 20 =and wisdom are born with a man.= _Selden._

=No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself.= _Pr._

=No man is to be deemed free who has not perfect self-command.= _Pythagoras._

=No man is wise enough or good enough to be intrusted with unlimited power.= _Colton._

=No man is wise or safe but be that is honest.= _Sir W. Raleigh._

=No man is without enemies.= _Arab. Pr._ 25

=No man is without his load of trouble.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=No man lives so poor as he was born.= _Pr._

=No man loves to frustrate expectations which have been formed in his favour.= _Johnson._

=No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.= _Pr._

=No man needs money so much as he who= 30 =despises it.= _Jean Paul._

=No man needs to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.= _Thoreau._

=No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.= _Phillips Brooks._

=No man perhaps suspects how large and important the region of unconsciousness in him is; what a vast, unknown territory lies there back of his conscious will and purpose, and which is really the controlling power of his life.= _John Burroughs._

=No man praises happiness as he would justice, but calls it blessed, as being something more divine and excellent.= _Arist._

=No man regards an eruption upon the surface= 35 =when the noble parts are invaded, and he feels a mortification approaching to his heart.= _Junius._

="No man," said Pestalozzi, "in God's wide universe, is either willing or able to help any other man." Help must come from the bosom alone.= _Emerson._

=No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.= _Carlyle._

=No man should be so much taken up in the search of truth, as thereby to neglect the more necessary duties of active life.= _Cic._

=No man should enter into alliance with his enemy, even with the tightest bonds of union. Water made ever so hot will still quench fire.= _Hitopadesa._

=No man should ever be ashamed to own he= 40 =has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.= _Pope._

=No man should ever display his bravery who is unprepared for battle; nor bear the marks of defiance, until he hath experienced the abilities of his enemy.= _Hitopadesa._

=No man should form an acquaintance, nor enter into any amusements, with one of an evil character. A piece of charcoal, if it be hot, burneth; and if it be cold, blackeneth the hand.= _Hitopadesa._

=No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.= _Channing._

=No man should strive to precede his fellows; for, should the work succeed, the booty is equal, and if it fail, the leader is punished.= _Hitopadesa._

=No man should think so highly of himself as= 45 =to think he can receive but little light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.= _Johnson._

=No man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed.= _Johnson._

=No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.= _Goethe._

=No man troubleth the beggar with questioning his religion or politics.= _Lamb._

=No man was ever as rich as all men ought to be.= _Old saying._

=No man was ever scolded out of his sins.= 50 _Cowper._

=No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.= _Lord Greville._

=No man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.= _Monk._

=No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.= _Johnson, of Goldsmith._

=No man whatever believes, or can believe, exactly what his grandfather believed.= _Carlyle._

=No man who does not choose, enter into and= 5 =walk in some narrow way of life, will ever have any moral character, any clearness of purpose, any wisdom of intelligence, or any tenderness or strength of heart.= _Ed._

=No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.= _Carlyle._

=No man who is wretched in his own heart and feeble in his own work can rightly help others.= _Ruskin._

=No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.= _Hawthorne._

=No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man.= _Johnson._

=No man's pie is freed / From his ambitious= 10 =finger.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 1.

=No man's religion ever survives his morals.= _South._

=No mata la carga sino la sobrecarga=--Not the load, but the overload kills. _Sp. Pr._

=No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.= _Emerson._

=No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and happiest of the children of men.= _J. A. Langford._

=No might nor greatness in mortality / Can censure= 15 ='scape; back-wounding calumny / The whitest virtue strikes.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 2.

=No mill, no meal.= _Pr._

=No more can you distinguish of a man / Than of his outward show; which, God he knows, / Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.= _Rich. III._, iii. 1.

=No more dangerous snare is set by the fiends for human frailty than the belief that our enemies are also the enemies of God.= _Ruskin._

=No more of your titled acquaintances boast, / And in what lordly circles you've been: / An insect is still but an insect at most, / Though it crawl on the head of a queen.= _Burns._

=No more subtle master under heaven / Than= 20 =is the maiden-passion for a maid, / Not only to keep down the base in man, / But teach high thought, and amiable words / And courtliness, and the desire of fame, / And love of truth, and all that makes a man.= _Tennyson._

=No morning can restore what we have forfeited.= _George Meredith._

=No mortal can both work and do good talking in Parliament or out of it; the feat is impossible as that of serving two hostile masters.= _Carlyle._

=No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.= _Carlyle._

=No mortal's endeavour or attainment will, in the smallest, content the as unendeavouring, unattaining young gentleman; but he could make it all infinitely better, were it worthy of him.= _Carlyle._

=No mother worthy of the name ever gave herself= 25 =thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.= _Beecher._

=No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.= _J. G. Holland._

=No nation can bear wealth that is not intelligent first.= _Ward Beecher._

=No nation can reform itself, as the English are now trying to do, by what their newspapers call "tremendous cheers." Reform is not joyous, but grievous; no single man can reform himself without stern suffering and stern working; how much less can a nation of men! Medea, when she made men young again, was wont to hew them in pieces with meat-axes; cast them into caldrons, and boil them for a length of time. How much handier could they have but done it by "tremendous cheers" alone!= _Carlyle._

=No need to teach your grandames to suck eggs.= _Pr._

=No news is good news.= _Pr._ 30

=No, no! I am but shadow of myself; / You are deceived, my substance is not here.= 1 _Hen. VI._, ii. 3.

=No noble task was ever easy.= _Carlyle._

=No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man.= _Carlyle._

=No, not even faith, or hope, or any other virtue, is accepted by God without charity and grace.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=No oath that binds to wrong can ever bind.= 35 _Dr. Walter Smith._

=No one can bake cakes for the whole world.= _Serv. Pr._

=No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise that, as a thinker, it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.= _J. S. Mill._

=No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.= _Sen._

=No one can be in perfect accord with any one but himself.= _Schopenhauer._

=No one can feel and exercise benevolence towards= 40 =another who is ill at ease with himself.= _Goethe._

=No one can find himself in himself or others; in fact, he has himself to spin, from the centre of which he exercises his influence.= _Goethe._

=No one can obtain what he does not bring with him.= _Goethe._

=No one can teach religion who has it not.= _Jean Paul._

=No one can teach you anything worth learning but through manual labour; the very bread of life can only be got out of the chaff of it by rubbing it in your hands.= _Ruskin._

=No one claims kindred with the poor.= _Pr._ 45

=No one easily arrives at the conclusion that reason and a brave will are given us that we may not only hold back from evil, but also from the extreme of good.= _Goethe._

=No one eats goldfish.= _Pr._

=No one ever impoverished himself by almsgiving.= _It. Pr._

=No one ever possessed superior intellectual qualities without knowing them.= _Bulwer._

=No one ever teaches well who wants to teach,= 50 =or governs well who wants to govern.= _Plato._

=No one falls low unless he attempt to climb high.= _Dan. Pr._

=No one gets into trouble without his own help.= _Dan. Pr._

=No one has ever learned fully to know himself.= _Goethe._

=No one has ever yet succeeded in deceiving the whole world, nor has the world ever combined to deceive any individual.= (?)

=No one has seen to-morrow.= _Port. Pr._ 5

=No one is a slave whose will is free.= _Tyrius Maximus._

=No one is by nature noble, respected of any one, nor a wretch. His own actions conduct him either to wretchedness or to the reverse.= _Hitopadesa._

=No one is free who is not master of himself.= _Claudius._

=No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.= _Jean Paul._

=No one is qualified to converse in public who is= 10 =not highly contented without such conversation.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=No one is qualified to entertain, or receive entertainment from others, who cannot entertain himself alone with satisfaction.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour.= _Dan. Pr._

=No one is so hardy as to say God is in his debt, that he owed him a nobler being, for existence must be antecedent to merit.= _Jeremy Collier._

=No one knows how far his powers go till he has tried.= _Goethe._

=No one knows the weight of another's burden.= 15 _Pr._

=No one knows what he is doing while he is acting rightly, but of what is wrong we are always conscious.= _Goethe._

=No one knows when he is well off.= _Punch._

=No one knows where the shoe pinches but him who wears it.= _Pr._

=No one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.= _Plato._

=No one likes to bell the cat.= _Pr._ 20

=No one shall look for effectual help to another; but each shall rest content with what help he can afford himself.= _Carlyle._

=No one will become anything, every one will already be something.= _Goethe._

=No one would respect thee in a beggar's coat. What is the respect paid to woollen cloth, not to thee?= _Jean Paul._

=No one would talk much in society if he only knew how often he misunderstands others.= _Goethe._

=No orator can measure in effect with him who= 25 =can give good nicknames.= _Emerson._

=No order or profession of men is so sacred, no place so remote or solitary, but that temptations and troubles will find them out and intrude upon them.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=No outward tyranny can reach the mind.= _Junius._

=No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden so well as her own reserve.= _Cervantes._

=No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.= _William Penn._

=No pains, no gains.= _Pr._ 30

=No passions are without their use, none without their nobleness, when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend.= _Ruskin._

=No patient will ever recover his health merely from the description of a medicine.= _Hitopadesa._

=No pay is receivable by any true man; but power is receivable by him in the love and faith you give him.= _Ruskin._

=No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.= _Ruskin._

=No penny, no paternoster.= _Pr._ 35

=No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion. They do not feel responsible for it; it lies far outside of them.= _Emerson._

=No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines.= _La Roche._

=No pillow so soft as God's promise.= _Saying._

=No pin's point can you mark within the wide circle of the All where God's laws are not.= _Carlyle._

=No place, no company, no age, no person is= 40 =temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted; let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.= _Spencer._

=No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence.= _Emerson._

=No power of good can be obtained by doing nothing and by knowing nothing.= _Johnson._

=No prayer, no religion, or at least only a dumb and lame one.= _Carlyle._

=No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.= _Henry Giles._

=No productiveness of the highest kind, no remarkable= 45 =discovery, no great thought which bears fruit and has results, is in the power of any one; such things are exalted above all earthly control. Man must consider them as an unexpected gift from above, as pure children of God, which he must receive and venerate with joyful thanks, ... as a vessel found worthy for the reception of such divine influence.= _Goethe._

=No profit canst thou gain / By self-consuming care.= _Wesley._

=No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en: / In brief, sir, study what you most affect.= _Tam. the Shrew_, i. 1.

=No property is eternal but God the Maker's: Whom Heaven permits to take possession, his is the right; Heaven's sanction is such permission--while it lasts.= _Carlyle._

=No real happiness is found / In trailing purple o'er the ground.= _Parnell._

=No really great man ever thought himself so.= 50 _Hazlitt._

=No receiver, no thief.= _Pr._