Chapter M (6)

=No reckoning made, but sent to my account / With all my imperfections on my head.= _Ham._, i. 5.

=No reports are more readily believed than those which disparage genius and soothe envy of conscious mediocrity.= _Macaulay._

=No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.= _Jean Paul._

=No revenge is more heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.= (?)

=No road is long with good company.= _Turk. Pr._

=No sadder proof can be given by man of his= 5 =own littleness than disbelief in great men.= _Carlyle._

=No safe wading in an unknown water.= _Pr._

=No sensible person ever made an apology.= _Emerson._

=No si puo volar senza ale=--He would fain fly, but he wants wings. _It. Pr._

=No single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man's character.= _Jeremy Taylor._

=No slave, to lazy ease resign'd, / E'er triumphed= 10 =over noble foes; / The monarch, Fortune, most is kind / To him who bravely dares oppose.= _Cervantes._

=No slave's vote is other than a nuisance, whensoever, or wheresoever, or in what manner soever, it is given.= _Carlyle._

=No smaller spirit can vanquish a greater.= _Goethe._

=No smoke, in any sense, but can become flame and radiance.= _Carlyle._

=No society can be upheld in happiness and honour without the sentiment of religion.= _Laplace._

=No sooner is a temple built to God, but the= 15 =devil builds a chapel close by.= _George Herbert._

=No soul to strong endeavour yoked for ever, / Works against the tide in vain.= _H. Kendall._

=No sound is dissonant which tells of life.= _Coleridge._

=No speculation in those eyes / Which thou dost glare with!= _Macb._, iii. 4.

=No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains / To tax our labours and excise our brains.= _Churchill._

=No stronger castle than a poor man's.= _Serv. Pr._ 20

=No surer does the Auldgarth bridge, that his father helped to build, carry the traveller over the turbulent water beneath it, than Carlyle's books convey the reader over chasms and confusions, where before there was no way, or only an inadequate one.= _John Burroughs._

=No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue.= _Sir P. Sydney._

=No tale so good but may be spoiled in the telling.= _Pr._

=No teaching is spiritually profitable, that is of true vital avail, translateable into flesh and blood, unless with the teaching we imbibe the spirit that dictates it.= _Ed._

=No theatre for virtue is equal to the consciousness= 25 =of it.= _Cic._

=No theological absurdities so glaring that they have not sometimes been embraced by men of the greatest and most cultivated understanding. No religious precepts so rigorous that they have not been adopted by the most voluptuous and most abandoned of men.= _Hume._

=No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.= _Landor._

=No thought is beautiful which is not just, and no thought can be just which is not founded on truth.= _Addison._

=No thought is contented. The better sort, / As thoughts of things divine, are intermixed / With scruples, and do set the word itself / Against the word.= _Rich. II._, v. 5.

=No trial is dangerous which there is courage= 30 =to meet.= _Goethe._

=No trouble, cross, or death / E'er shall silence faith and praise.= _Winkworth._

=No truly great man ever founded, wilfully intended founding, a sect.= _Carlyle._

=No two on earth in all things can agree; / All have some darling singularity.= _Churchill._

=No two virtues, whatever relation they claim, / Nor even two different shades of the same, / Though like as was ever twin-brother to brother, / Possessing the one shall imply you've the other.= _Burns._

=No useless coffin enclosed his breast, / Not in= 35 =sheet nor in shroud we wound him; / But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, / With his martial cloak around him.= _Rev. C. Wolfe._

=No vice goes alone.= _Pr._

=No victory worth having was ever won without cost.= _Ruskin._

=No violent extreme endures.= _Carlyle._

=No visor does become black villany / So well as soft and tender flattery.= _Pericles_, iv. 4.

=No weather's ill when the wind's still.= _Pr._ 40

=No weeping for shed milk.= _Pr._

=No whip cuts so sharply as the lash of conscience.= _Pr._

=No wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.= _Swift._

=No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest / Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.= _Cowper._

=No wind is of service to him who is bound for= 45 =nowhere.= _Fr. Pr._

=No wise combatant underrates his antagonist.= _Goethe._

=No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.= _Hazlitt._

=No wise man ever wished to be younger.= (?)

=No wise man should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractices in his house, his being cheated, or his having been disgraced.= _Hitopadesa._

=No woman can be handsome by the force of= 50 =features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech.= _Hughes._

=No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family.= _Burnap._

=No woman is so bad but we may rejoice when her heart thrills to love, for then God has her by the hand.= _J. M. Barrie._

=No woman shall succeed in Salique land.= _Hen. V._, i. 2.

=No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained, it ceases to be a wonder.= _Leigh Hunt._

=No wonder lasts over three days.= _Pr._ 55

=No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.= _Goethe._

=No word is ill spoken if it be not ill taken.= _Pr._

=No words suffice the secret soul to show, / For truth denies all eloquence to woe.= _Byron._

=No work, no recompense.= _Pr._

=No working world, any more than a fighting= 5 =world, can be led on without a noble chivalry of work, and laws and fixed rules which follow out of that--far nobler than any chivalry of fighting war.= _Carlyle._

=No worth, known or unknown, can die even on this earth.= _Carlyle._

=Nobilitatis virtus non stemma character=--Virtue, not pedigree, should characterise nobility. _M._

=Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source than at its termination.= _Colton._

=Nobility of nature consists in doing good for the good's sake.= _Wm. v. Humboldt._

=Nobility without virtue is a fine setting without= 10 =a gem.= _Jane Porter._

=Nobis non licet esse tam disertis, / Qui Musas colimus severiores=--We who cultivate the graver Muse are not allowed to be diffuse. _Mart._

=Noble art is nothing less than the expression of a great soul; and great souls are not common things.= _Ruskin._

=Noble housekeepers need no doors.= _Pr._

=Noble spirits war not with the dead.= _Byron._

=Nobler is a limited command, / Given by the= 15 =love of all your native land, / Than a successive title, long and dark, / Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.= _Dryden._

=Noblesse oblige=--Rank imposes obligation. _M._

=Nobody calls himself rogue.= _Pr._

=Nobody can continue easy in his own mind who does not endeavour to become least of all and servant of all.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Nobody can find work easy if much work do lie in him.= _Carlyle._

=Nobody can live by teaching any more than= 20 =by learning; both teaching and learning are proper duties of human life, or pleasures of it, but have nothing whatever to do with the support of it.= _Ruskin._

=Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished and set, then they give a lustre.= _Locke._

=Nobody has a right to have opinions, but only knowledge.= _Ruskin._

=Nobody knows who may be listening; say nothing which you would not wish put in the daily paper.= _Spurgeon._

=Nobody should be rich but those who understand it.= _Goethe._

=Nobody will persist long in helping those who= 25 =will not help themselves.= _Johnson._

=Nobody will use other people's experience, nor has any of his own till it is too late to use it.= _Hawthorne._

=Nobody would be afraid if he could help it.= _Smollett._

=Noces de Gamache=--A very sumptuous repast. _Fr._

=Nocet empta dolore voluptas=--Pleasure purchased by pain is injurious. _Hor._

=Noch ist es Tag, da rühre sich der Mann, /= 30 =Die Nacht tritt ein, wo niemand wirken kann=--It is still day, in which to be up and doing; the night is setting in wherein no man can work. _Goethe._

=Noch lebt ein Gott, der meines Elends denkt!=--A God still lives who thinks of my misery. _Chamisso._

=Noch niemand entfloh dem verhängten Geschick=--No one has yet evaded the fate allotted to him. _Schiller._

=Noctemque diemque fatigat=--He wears out both night and day at his work. _Virg._

=Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna=--Let these be your studies by night and by day.

=Nodum in scirpo quæris=--You look for a knot in 35 a bulrush, _i.e._, are too scrupulous. _Pr._

=Noisome weeds that without profit suck / The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.= _Rich. II._, iii. 4.

=Nolens volens=--Whether one will or no.

=Noli irritare leones=--Don't irritate lions. _M._

=Noli me tangere=--Touch me not.

=Nolle prosequi=--To be unwilling to prosecute. _L._ 40

=Nolo barbam vellere mortuo leoni=--I won't pluck the beard of a dead lion. _Mart._

=Nolo episcopari=--I have no wish to be made a bishop. _Applied to an affected indifference to obtaining what one really desires._

=Nom de guerre=--An assumed name. _Fr._

=Nom de plume=--Assumed name of an author. _Fr._

=Nomen amicitia est; nomen inane fides=--Friendship 45 is but a name; fidelity but an empty name. _Ovid._

=Nomen atque omen=--A name and at the same time an omen. _Plaut._

[Greek: Nomiz' adelphous tous alêthinous philous]--Count true friends as brothers.

=Non adeo cecidi, quamvis abjectus, ut infra / Te quoque sim; inferius quo nihil esse potest=--Though cast off, I have not fallen so low as to be beneath thee, than which nothing can be lower. _Ovid._

=Non ætate verum ingenio adipiscitur sapientia=--Wisdom is not attained with years, but by ability. _Plaut._

=Non agitur de vectigalibus, non de sociorum= 50 =injuriis; libertas et anima nostra in dubio est=--It is not a question of our revenues, nor of the wrongs of our allies; our liberty and very lives are in peril. _Cic. in Sall._

=Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; / Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te=--I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee. _Mart._

=Non Angli, sed angeli=--Not Angles, but angels. _Gregory the Great, on seeing some captive British youths for sale in the slave-market at Rome._

=Non aqua, sed ruina=--Not with water, but with ruin.

=Non assumpsit=--He did not assume. _L._

=Non bene conveniunt, nec in una sede morantur= 55 =/ Majestas et amor=--Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place. _Ovid._

=Non bene imperat, nisi qui paruerit imperio=--No one makes a good commander except he who has been trained to obey commands.

=Non bene junctarum discordia semina rerum=--The discordant seeds of things ill joined. _Ovid._

=Non c' è il peggior frutto di quello che non matura mai=--There is no crop worse than fruit that never ripens. _It. Pr._

=Non ci è fumo senza fuoco=--There is no smoke without fire. _It. Pr._

=Non compos mentis=--Not sound in mind.

=Non constat=--This does not appear. _L._ 5

=Non convivere, nec videre saltem, / Non audire licet; nec Urbe tota / Quisquam est tam prope, tam proculque nobis=--I may not live with him, nor even see him or hear him; in all the city there is no one so near me and so far away. _Mart._

=Non credo tempori=--I trust not to time. _M._

=Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum=--Not every man is gifted with a nose, _i.e._, has the power of keen discernment. _Mart._

=Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum=--It is not every man that can get to Corinth, _i.e._, rise in the world. _Hor._

=Non decipitur qui scit se decipi=--He is not 10 deceived who is knowingly deceived. _L._

=Non deerat voluntas, sed facultas=--Not the will, but the ability was wanting.

=Non deficit alter=--Another is not wanting. _Virg._

=Non destare il can che dorme=--Do not wake a sleeping dog. _It. Pr._

=Non è in alcun luogo chi è per tutto=--He is nowhere who is everywhere. _It. Pr._

=Non è si tristo cane che non meni la coda=--No 15 dog is so bad but he will wag his tail. _It. Pr._

=Non è uomo chi non sa dir di nò=--He's no man who can't say "No." _It. Pr._

=Non è ver che sia la morte / Il peggior di tutti i mali; / E un sollievo pei mortali / Che non stanchi di soffrir=--Death is not, in fact, the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is a relief to those who are worn out with suffering. _Metastasio._

=Non eadem est ætas, non mens=--My age is no longer the same, nor my inclination. _Hor._

=Non eadem ratio est, sentire et demere morbos: / Sensus inest cunctis; tollitur arte malum=--To be sensible of disease and remove it is not the same thing. The sense of it exists in all; by skill alone is disease removed. _Ovid._

=Non ebur neque aureum / Mea renidet in domo= 20 =lacunar=--In my dwelling no ivory gleams, nor fretted roof covered with gold. _Hor._

=Non ego avarum / Cum te veto fieri, vappam jubeo ac nebulonem=--When I say, Be not a miser, I do not bid you become a worthless prodigal. _Hor._

=Non ego illam mihi dotem esse puto, quæ dos dicitur, / Sed pudicitiam, et pudorem, et sedatam cupidinem=--I do not deem that a dowry which is called a dowry, but chastity, modesty, and subdued desire. _Plaut._

=Non ego mordaci distrinxi carmine quenquam; / Nec meus ullius crimina versus habet=--I have not wounded any one with stinging satire, nor does my poetry contain a charge against any man. _Ovid._

=Non ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini existimo=--I do not at all reckon that every kind of gain is serviceable to a man. _Plaut._

=Non ego ventosæ venor suffragia plebis=--I do 25 not hunt after the suffrages of the fickle multitude. _Hor._

=Non enim gazæ neque consularis / Summovet lictor miseros tumultus / Mentis et curas laqueata circum / Tecta volantes=--For neither regal treasure, nor the consul's lictor, nor the cares that hover about fretted ceilings, can remove the unhappy tumults of the mind. _Hor._

=Non equidem invideo, miror magis=--In sooth I feel no envy, I am surprised rather. _Virg._

=Non equidem studeo, bullatis ut mihi nugis / Pagina turgescat, dare pondus idonea fumo=--I do not study to swell my page with pompous trifles, suited only to give weight to smoke. _Pers._

=Non erat his locus=--This was out of place here. _Hor._

=Non esse cupidum pecunia est: non esse= 30 =emacem vectigal est=--Not to be covetous is money: not to be extravagant is an estate. _Cic._

=Non est ad astra mollis a terris via=--The road from the earth to the stars is not a soft one. _Sen._

=Non est bonum ludere cum Diis=--It is not good to trifle with the gods. _Pr._

=Non est de pastu omnium quæstio, sed de lana=--It is a matter not of feeding the sheep, but fleecing them (_lit._ of wool). _Pius II._

=Non est de sacco tanta farina tuo=--So much meal cannot have come from your own sack. _Pr._

=Non est ejusdem et multa et opportuna dicere=--The 35 same person will not both talk much and to the purpose. _Pr._

=Non est jocus esse malignum=--There is no joking where there is spite. _Hor._

=Non est nostri ingenii=--It is not within my range of ability. _Cic._

=Non est vivere, sed valere, vita=--Not to live, but to be healthy is life. _Mart._

=Non exercitus, neque thesauri, præsidia regni sunt, verum amici=--Neither armies nor treasures are the safeguards of a state, but friends. _Sall._

=Non fa buon mangiar cireggie con signori=--It 40 is not good to eat cherries with great persons. _It. Pr._

=Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem=--Not to educe smoke from splendour, but light from smoke. _M._

=Non generant aquilæ columbas=--Eagles do not beget doves. _M._

=Non giudicar la nave stando in terra=--Don't judge of the ship from the shore. _It. Pr._

=Non hæc sine numine=--These things are not without sanction of the Deity. _M._

=Non han speranza di morte=--They have not 45 hope to die. _Dante._

=Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula poscit=--The present moment is not one to indulge in spectacles of this kind. _Virg._

=Non hominis culpa, sed ista loci=--It is not the fault of the man, but of the place. _Ovid._

=Non id quod magnum est pulchrum est, sed id quod pulchrum magnum=--Not that which is great is noble (_lit._ beautiful), but that which is noble is great.

=Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.= _See "Haud ignara."_

=Non illa colo calathisve Minervæ / Femineas= 50 =assueta manus=--Her woman's hands were not trained to the distaff or basket of (distaff-loving) Minerva. _Virg._

=Non immemor beneficii=--Not unmindful of kindness. _M._

=Non in caro nidore voluptas / Summa, sed in teipso est, tu pulmentaria quære / Sudando=--The pleasure (in eating) does not lie in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Seek the relish, therefore, from hard exercise. _Hor._

=Non intelligitur quando obrepit senectus=--We do not perceive old age, seeing it creeps on apace. _Cic._

=Non intelligunt homines quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia=--Men do not understand what a great revenue economy is. _Cic._

=Non la philosophie, mais le philosophisme causera des maux à la France=--Not the philosophy, but the philosophy of the philosophe will bring evils on France. _Voltaire in 1735._

=Non liquet=--It is not clear. _L._ 5

=Non magni pendis, quia contigit=--You do not value it highly because it has been your lot. _Hor._

=Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam=--I am not ashamed to confess myself ignorant of what I do not know. _Cic._

=Non mihi sapit qui sermone, sed qui factis sapit=--Not he who is wise in speech, but he who is wise in deeds is wise for me. _Greg. Agrigent._

=Non mihi si linguæ centum sint oraque centum, / Ferrea vox, omnes scelerum comprendere formas / Omnia pœnarum percurrere nomina possim=--Not if I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and a voice of iron, could I retail all the types of wickedness, and run over all the names of penal woe. _Virg._

=Non missura cutem, nisi plena cruoris hirudo=--A 10 leech that will not leave the skin until it is gorged with blood. _Hor._

=Non multa, sed multum=--Not many things, but much.

=Non nobis, Domine=--Not unto us, O Lord.

=Non nobis solum nati sumus=--We are born not for ourselves alone. _Cic._

=Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites=--It is not for me to settle such a dispute. _Virg._

=Non obstante veredicto=--The verdict notwithstanding. 15 _L._

=Non olet=--It has not a bad smell, _i.e._, money. _Suetonius._

=Non omnes eadem mirantur amantque=--All men do not admire and love the same objects. _Hor._

=Non omnia possumus omnes=--We cannot all of us do everything. _Virg._

=Non omnibus dormio=--Not for all do I sleep. _Cic._

=Non omnis error stultitia est dicendus=--Not 20 every error is to be called folly.

=Non omnis moriar; multaque pars mei / Vitabit Libitinam=--I shall not wholly die; and a great part of me shall escape the grave. _Hor._

=Non opus est magnis placido lectore poetis; / Quamlibet invitum difficilemque tenent=--Great poets have no need of an indulgent reader; they hold captive every one however unwilling and hard to please he may be. _Ovid._

=Non placet quem scurræ laudant, manipulares mussitant=--I do not like the man whom the town gentry belaud, but of whom the people of his own class say nothing. _Plaut._

=Non posse bene geri rempublicam multorum imperiis=--Under the command of many, a commonwealth cannot be well conducted. _Corn. Nep._

=Non possidentem multa vocaveris / Recte= 25 =beatum. Rectius occupat / Nomen beati, qui Deorum / Muneribus sapienter uti, / Duramque callet pauperiem pati, / Pejusque leto flagitium timet=--You would not justly call him blessed who has great possessions; more justly does he claim the title who knows how to use wisely the gifts of the gods and to bear the hardships of poverty, and who fears disgrace worse than death. _Hor._

=Non possum ferre, Quirites, / Græcam urbem=--I cannot, Romans, endure a Grecian city, _i.e._, Greek or effeminate manners in stern old Rome. _Juv._

=Non potest severus esse in judicando, qui alios in se severos esse judices non vult=--He cannot be strict in judging who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. _Cic._

=Non progredi est regredi=--Not to advance is to go back. _Pr._

=Non pronuba Juno, / Non Hymenæus adest, non illi Gratia lecto; / Eumenides stravere torum=--No Juno, guardian of the marriage rites, no Hymenæus, no one of the Graces, stood by that nuptial couch. _Ovid._

=Non purgat peccata qui negat=--He who denies 30 his sins does not atone for them. _Pr._

=Non quam diu, sed quam bene vixeris refert=--Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. _Sen._

=Non qui soletur, non qui labentia tarde / Tempora narrando fallat, amicus adest=--There is no friend near to console me, none to beguile the weary hours with his talk. _Ovid._

=Non ragioniam di lor; ma guarda, e passa=--Talk not of them; one look, and then pass on. _Dante._

=Non revertar inultus=--I will not return unavenged. _M._

=Non satis est pulchra esse poëmata; dulcia= 35 =sunto, / Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto=--It is not enough that poems be beautiful; they must also be affecting, and move at will the hearer's soul. _Hor._

=Non scholæ, sed vitæ discimus=--We learn not at school, but in life. _Sen._

=Non scribit, cujus carmina nemo legit=--That man does not write whose verses no man reads. _Mart._

=Non semper erit æstas=--It will not always be summer. _Hesiod._

=Non semper erunt Saturnalia=--The carnival will not last for ever.

=Non sequitur=--It does not follow; an unwarranted 40 inference.

=Non si male nunc, et olim sic erit=--If it is ill now, it will not also be so hereafter. _Hor._

=Non sibi sed patriæ=--Not for himself, but for his country. _M._

=Non sine numine=--Not without the Divine approval _M._

=Non sum qualis eram=--I am not what I once was. _Hor._

=Non tali auxilio, nec defensoribus istis / Tempus= 45 =eget=--The times require other aid and other defenders than those you bring. _Virg._

=Non tu corpus eras sine pectore. Di tibi formam, / Di tibi divitias dederant, artemque fruendi=--You were at no time ever a body without a soul. The gods have given you beauty, the gods have given you wealth, and the skill to enjoy it. _Horace to Tibullus._

=Non usitata, nec tenui ferar penna=--I shall be borne on no common, no feeble, wing. _Hor._

=Non uti libet, sed uti licet, sic vivamus=--We must live not as we like, but as we can. _Pr._

=Non v'è peggior ladro d'un cattivo libro=--There is no robber worse than a bad book. _It. Pr._

=Non vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit=--He has not lived ill whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. _Hor._

=Nonchalance=--Coolness; indifference. _Fr._ 5

=Nondum omnium dierum sol occidit=--The sun of all days has not yet set. _Pr._

=None acts a friend by a deputy, or can be familiar by proxy.= _South._

=None are all evil; quickening round his heart, / One softer feeling would not yet depart.= _Byron._

=None are fair but who are kind.= _Stanley._

=None are more unjust in their judgments of= 10 =others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.= _Spurgeon._

=None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.= _Stanislaus._

=None are so desolate but something dear, / Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd / A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.= _Byron._

=None are so fond of secrets as those who don't mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money--for the purpose of circulation.= (?)

=None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.= _Goethe._

=None are so seldom found alone, and are so= 15 =soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.= _Colton._

=None are so well shod but they may slip.= _Pr._

=None but a fool is always right.= _Hare._

=None but a fool would measure his satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.= _Goldsmith._

=None but a Goethe, at the sun of earthly happiness, can keep his Phœnix wings unsinged.= _Carlyle._

=None but an author knows an author's cares, /= 20 =Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears.= _Cowper._

=None but himself can be his parallel.= _L. Theobald._

=None but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness.= _Mirabeau._

=None but the brave deserve the fair.= _Dryden._

=None can cure their harms by wailing them.= _Rich. III._, ii. 2.

=None can pray well but he who lives well.= _Pr._ 25

=None ever saw the pillars of the firmament; yet it is supported.= _Luther._

=None ever was a great poet that applied himself much to anything else.= _Sir W. Temple._

=None is so deaf as he who will not hear.= _Pr._

=None is so wasteful as the scraping dame; / She loseth three for one--her soul, rest, fame.= _George Herbert._

=None is so wretched as the poor man who maintains= 30 =the semblance of wealth.= _Spurgeon._

=None lie that would not steal.= _Gael. Pr._

=None more impatiently suffer injuries than those that are most forward in doing them.= (?)

=None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.= _Bacon._

=None of those who own the land own the landscape; only he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.= _Emerson._

=None of us can wrong the universe.= _Emerson._ 35

=None of you can tell where the shoe pinches me.= _Plutarch._

=None shun the light but criminals and evil spirits.= _Schiller._

=None so blind as they who will not see.= _Pr._

=None so miserable as a man who wills everything and can do nothing.= _Claudius._

=None so wise but the advice of others may, at= 40 =some time or other, be useful and necessary for him.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=None think the great unhappy but the great.= _Pr._

=None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair; / But love can hope where reason would despair.= _Lyttelton._

=Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound / Reverbs no hollowness.= _King Lear_, i. 1.

=Nor by the wayside ruins let us mourn / Who have th' eternal towers for our appointed bourne.= _Keble._

=Nor can either thy own resentment of misfortunes= 45 =within, or the violence of any calamity without, give thee sufficient grounds, from the terrible face thy present circumstances wear, to pronounce that all hope of escape and better days are past.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Nor deem the irrevocable past / As wholly wasted, wholly vain, / If, rising on its wrecks, at last / To something nobler we attain.= _Longfellow._

=Nor e'en the tenderest heart, and next our own, / Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh!= _Keble._

=Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed / A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.= _T. Tickell._

=Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call; / She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all.= _Pope._

=Nor grieve to die when far from home; you'll= 50 =find / To Hades everywhere a favouring wind.= _Anon._

=Nor is it possible to thought / A greater than itself to know.= _Wm. Blake._

=Nor less I deem that there are powers / Which of themselves our minds impress; / That we can feel this mind of ours / In a wide passiveness.= _Wordsworth._

=Nor love thy life, nor hate, but what thou liv'st / Live well, how long or short permit to heaven.= _Milton._

=Nor sequent centuries could hit / Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.= _Landor._

=Nor sink those stars in empty night; / They= 55 =hide themselves in heaven's own light.= _Montgomery._

=Noris quam elegans formarum spectator fiem=--You shall see how nice a judge of beauty I am. _Ter._

=Nos duo turba sumus=--We two are a multitude (_lit._ a crowd). _Deucalion to Pyrrha after the deluge, in Ovid._

=Nos hæc novimus esse nihil=--We know that these things are nothing--mere trifles. _Mart._

=Nos nostraque Deo=--Both we and ours are God's. _M._

=Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati=--We are a mere number (but ciphers), and born to consume the fruits of the earth. _Hor._

=Nos patriæ fines et dulcia linquimus arva=--We leave the confines of our native country and our delightful plains. _Virg._

=Nos te, / Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam=--It is we, O Fortune, we that make thee a goddess. _Juv._

=Nosce tempus=--Know your time; make hay 5 while the sun shines. _Pr._

=Noscenda est mensura sui spectandaque rebus / In summis minimisque=--A man should know his own measure, and have regard to it in the smallest matters as well as the greatest. _Juv._

=Noscitur a sociis=--A man is known by the company he keeps; a word, by the context.

=Nosse omnia hæc salus est adolescentulis=--It is salutary for young men to know all these things. _Ter._

=Nosse volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo=--All wish to know, but no one to pay the fee. _Juv._

=Nostra nos sine comparatione delectant; nunquam= 10 =erit felix quem torquebit felicior=--What we have pleases us if we do not compare it with what others have; he never will be happy to whom a happier is a torture. _Sen._

=Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, / As his corse to the rampart we hurried: / Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, / O'er the grave where our hero we buried.= _Rev. C. Wolfe._

=Not a flower, not a flower sweet, / On my black coffin let there be strewn; / Not a friend, not a friend greet / My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown; / A thousand, thousand sighs to save, / Lay me (what you will) O where / Sad lover ne'er find my grave, / To weep there.= (?)

=Not a man, for being simply man, / Hath any honour, but honour for those honours / That are without him, as place, riches, favour, / Prizes of accident, as oft as merit.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.

=Not a man of iron, but of live oak.= _Garfield._

=Not a Red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg,= 15 =can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole world must smart for it. Will not the price of beaver rise?= _Carlyle._

=Not a single shaft can hit / Till the God of love sees fit.= _Ryland._

=Not a vanity is given in vain.= _Pope._

=Not all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, / Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lines of rhyme, / Can blazon evil deeds or consecrate a crime.= _Byron._

=Not all the water in the rough rude sea / Can wash the balm from an anointed king; / The breath of worldly men cannot depose / The deputy elected by the Lord.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.

=Not alone to know, but to act according to= 20 =thy knowledge, is thy destination.= _Fichte._

=Not as a vulture, but a dove, / The Holy Ghost came from above.= _Longfellow, after Fuller._

=Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.= _Sydney Smith._

=Not brute force, but only persuasion and faith is the king of this world.= _Carlyle._

=Not by levity of floating, but by stubborn force of swimming, shalt thou make thy way. A grand "vis inertiæ" in thee, Mr. Bull.= _Carlyle._

=Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit,= 25 =saith the Lord.= _Bible._

=Not by the law of force, but by the law of labour, has any man right to the possession of the land.= _Ruskin._

=Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, / Is our destined end or way; / But to act that each to-morrow / May find us farther than to-day.= _Longfellow._

=Not every parish priest can wear Dr. Luther's shoes.= _Pr._

=Not fame, but that which it merits, is what a man should esteem.= _Schopenhauer._

=Not for fellowship in hatred, but in love am I= 30 =here.= _Sophocles._

=Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.= _St. Paul._

=Not he who has many ideas, but he who has one conviction may become a great man.= _Cötvös._

=Not heaven itself upon the past has power; / But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.= _Dryden._

=Not in a man's having no business with men, but in having no unjust business with them, and in having all manner of true and just business, can either his or their blessedness be found possible, and this waste world become, for both parties, a home and peopled garden.= _Carlyle._

=Not in nature, but in man is all the beauty= 35 =and the worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for its pride.= _Emerson._

=Not in pulling down, but in building up, does man find pure joy.= _Goethe._

=Not in the achievement, but in the endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite God.= _Chapin._

=Not kings alone--the people too have their flatterers.= _Mirabeau._

=Not less in God's sight is the end of the day than the beginning.= _Gael. Pr._

=Not liberty, but duty, is the condition of existence.= 40 _George Eliot._

=Not lost, but gone before.= _Sen._

=Not many words are needed to refuse; by the refused the "no" alone is heard.= _Goethe._

=Not marble, nor the gilded monuments of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.= _Cymbeline._ (?)

=Not misgovernment, nor yet no government; only government will now serve.= _Carlyle._

=Not once or twice in our rough island-story, /= 45 =The path of duty was the way to glory: / He that walks it, only thirsting / For the right, and learns to deaden / Love of self, before his journey closes / He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting / Into glossy purples, which outredden / All voluptuous garden-roses.= _Tennyson._

=Not one false man but does unaccountable mischief; how much, in a generation or two, will twenty-seven millions, mostly false, manage to accumulate?= _Carlyle._

=Not one of our faculties that it is not a delight to exercise.= _W. R. Greg._

=Not one of our senses that, in its healthy state, is not an avenue to enjoyment.= _W. R. Greg._

=Not one word of any book is readable by you, except so far as your mind is one with its author's; and not merely his words like your words, but his thoughts like your thoughts.= _Ruskin._

=Not only all common speech, but science, poetry itself, is no other, if thou consider it, than right naming.= _Carlyle._

=Not only has the unseen world a reality, but= 5 =the only reality; the rest being, not metaphorically, but literally and in scientific strictness, "a show."= _Carlyle._

=Not our logical, mensurative faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us; I might say, priest and prophet to lead us heavenward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.= _Carlyle._

=Not so easily can a man tear up the roots of his old life, and transplant himself into a new soil and a foreign atmosphere.= _Ed._

=Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.

=Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, rouses the flock to fly and follow.= _Chinese Pr._

=Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but= 10 =the hero's heart.= _Serv. Pr._

=Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather he who offers faithful service in small matters is most welcome to one who would achieve what is good and lasting.= _Goethe._

=Not this man and that man, but all men make up mankind, and their united tasks the task of mankind.= _Carlyle._

=Not to attempt a gallant deed for which one has the impulse may be braver than the doing of it.= _J. M. Barrie._

=Not to believe in God, but to acknowledge Him when and wheresoever He reveals Himself, is the one sole blessedness of man on earth.= _Goethe._

=Not to desire or admire, if a man could learn= 15 =it, were more / Than a walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice.= _Tennyson._

=Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.= _Milton._

=Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.= _Cic._

=Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical.= _Sen._

=Not to see the wood for the trees=, _i.e._, the whole for the details. _Ger. Pr._

=Not to speak your opinion well, but to have a= 20 =good and just opinion worth speaking; for every Parliament, as for every man, this latter is the point.= _Carlyle._

=Not to talk of thy doing, and become the envy of surrounding flunkeys, but to taste of the fruit of thy doings themselves, is thine.= _Carlyle._

=Not towards the impossibility, self-government of a multitude by a multitude; but towards some possibility, government by the wisest, does bewildered Europe now struggle.= _Carlyle._

=Not what I Have, but what I Do is my Kingdom.= _Carlyle._

=Not what the man knows, but what he wills, determines his worth or unworth, his strength or weakness, his happiness or misery.= _Lindner._

=Not what we wish, but what we want, / Oh,= 25 =let thy grace supply.= _Merrick._

=Not when I rise above, only when I rise to, something, do I approve myself.= _Jacobi._

=Not where they dash ashore and break and moan are waters deadliest.= _A. Mary F. Robinson._

=Not without a shudder may a human hand clutch into the mysterious urn of destiny.= _Schiller._

=Note bene=--Note well.

=Notandi sunt tibi mores=--The manners of men 30 are to be carefully observed. _Hor._

=Note how the falcon starts at every sight, / New from his hood, but what a quiet eye / Cometh of freedom.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._

=Noth bricht Eisen-=-Necessity breaks iron. _Ger. Pr._

=Noth kennt kein Gebot=--Necessity knows no law. _Ger. Pr._

=Noth lehrt beten=--Necessity teaches to pray. _Ger. Pr._

=Nothing altogether passes away without result.= 35 =We are here to leave that behind us which will never die.= _Goethe._

=Nothing amuses more harmlessly than computation, and nothing is oftener applicable to real business or speculative inquiries. A thousand stories which the ignorant tell and believe die away at once when the computist takes them in his grip.= _Johnson._

=Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.= _Emerson._

=Nothing at bottom is interesting to the majority of men but themselves.= _Schopenhauer._

=Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.= _Love's L. Lost_, ii. 1.

=Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eye= 40 =of man.= _Arab. Pr._

=Nothing but ourselves can finally beat us.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.= _Steele._

=Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.= _Ruskin._

=Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.= _Publius Syrus._

=Nothing can be hostile to religion which is= 45 =agreeable to justice.= _Gladstone._

=Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations.= _Sir J. Reynolds._

=Nothing can be more fatal in politics than a preponderance of the philosophical, or in philosophy than a preponderance of the political, spirit.= _Lecky._

=Nothing can be preserved but what is good.= _Emerson._

=Nothing can be so injurious to progress as to be altogether blamed or altogether praised.= _Goethe._

=Nothing can be termed mine own but what I= 50 =make my own by using well.= _Middleton._

=Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.= _Emerson._

=Nothing can come out of a sack that is not in it.= _It. Pr._

=Nothing can ferment itself to clearness in a colander.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing can need a lie; / A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.= _Herbert._

=Nothing can overtake an untruth if it has a= 5 =minute's start.= _J. M. Barrie._

=Nothing can work me damage except myself.= _St. Bernard._

=Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.= _Tam. of the Shrew_, i. 2.

=Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.= _Pr._

=Nothing contributes so much to cheerfulness as health, or so little as riches.= _Schopenhauer._

=Nothing costs less or is cheaper than compliments= 10 =of civility.= _Cervantes._

=Nothing deepens and intensifies family traits like poverty and toil and suffering. It is the furnace heat that brings out the characters, the pressure that makes the strata perfect.= _John Burroughs._

=Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far and relaxed too much.= _Bacon._

=Nothing dies, nothing can die. No idlest word thou speakest but is a seed cast into time, and grows through all eternity.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing does so much honour to a woman as her patience, and nothing does her so little as the patience of her husband.= _Joubert._

=Nothing done by man in the past has any= 15 =deeper sense than what he is doing now.= _Emerson._

=Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion.= _Bp. Hall._

=Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.

=Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.= _Hume._

=Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, / A fool in fashion, save a fool that's out; / His passion for absurdity's so strong, / He cannot bear a rival in the throng.= _Young._

=Nothing exposes us more to madness than= 20 =distinguishing ourselves from others, and nothing more contributes to maintain our common-sense than living in community of feeling with other people.= _Goethe._

=Nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in malice; then must you speak / Of one, that loved not wisely, but too well ... of one, whose hand / Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away, / Richer than all his tribe.= _Othello_, v. 2.

=Nothing for nothing.= _Pr._

=Nothing for nothing, and very little for a halfpenny.= _Pr._

=Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.= _Hazlitt._

=Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The= 25 =lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him to prepare the world for his coming.= _Hare._

=Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost; / Every good deed nobly done will repay the cost.= (?)

=Nothing hath got so far / But man hath caught and kept it as his prey; / His eyes dismount the highest star; / He is in little all the sphere.= _George Herbert._

=Nothing hitherto was ever stranded, cast aside; but all, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all; is borne forward on the bottomless, shoreless flood of action, and lives through perpetual metamorphoses.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing in haste save catching fleas.= _Dut. Pr._

=Nothing in his life / Became him like the= 30 =leaving it; he died / As one that had been studied in his death / To throw away the dearest thing he owed, / As 'twere a careless trifle.= _Macbeth_, i. 4.

=Nothing in itself deformed or incongruous can give us any real satisfaction.= _Cervantes._

=Nothing in love can be premeditated; it is as a power divine, that thinks and feels within us, unswathed by our control.= _Mme. de Staël._

=Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, / Was e'er created solely for itself.= _Young._

=Nothing in the dealings of Heaven with Earth is so wonderful to me as the way in which the evil angels are allowed to spot, pervert, and bring to nothing, or to worse, the powers of the greatest men: so that Greece must be ruined, for all that Plato can say; Geneva, for all that Calvin can say; England, for all that Sir Thomas More and Bacon can say; and only Gounod's "Faust" to be the visible outcome to Europe of the school of Weimar.= _Ruskin._

=Nothing in the world is more haughty than a= 35 =man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.= _Baron Wessenberg._

=Nothing is a misery, / Unless our weakness apprehend it so; / We cannot be more faithful to ourselves / In anything that's manly, than to make / Ill-fortune as contemptible to us / As it makes us to others.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._

=Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve yourself to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is but what is not.= _Macb._, i. 3.

=Nothing is cheap if you don't want it.= _Pr._

=Nothing is constant but a virtuous mind.= 40 _Shirley._

=Nothing is denied to well-directed labour; nothing is ever to be attained without it.= _Sir J. Reynolds._

=Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.= _B. R. Haydon._

=Nothing is easier than to clear debts by borrowing.= _Johnson._

=Nothing is endless but inanity.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is fair or good alone.= _Emerson._ 45

=Nothing is farther than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.= _Hare._

=Nothing is given so ungrudgingly as advice.= _La Roche._

=Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its core and its own general wants.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is good I see without respect.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.

=Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.= _Ham._, ii. 2.

=Nothing is graceful that is not our own.= _Collier._

=Nothing is high because it is in a high place, and nothing low because it is in a low one.= _Dickens._

=Nothing is impossible to the man who can= 5 =will.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is insipid to the wise; / To thee insipid all but what is mad; / Joy season'd high and tasting strong of guilt.= _Young._

=Nothing is lasting that is feigned.= _Pr._

=Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and, far from commanding it, we are forced to obey it.= _Rousseau._

=Nothing is law that is not reason.= _Sir Powell._

=Nothing is more active than thought, for it= 10 =flies over the universe; nothing stronger than necessity, for all must submit to it.= _Thales._

=Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.= _G. S. Hillard._

=Nothing is more certain than that great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results.= _Lowell._

=Nothing is more characteristic of a man than his behaviour towards fools.= _Amiel._

=Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.= _Johnson._

=Nothing is more common than to express exceeding= 15 =zeal in amending our neighbours, ... while at the same time we neglect the beginning at home.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is more easy than to clear debts by borrowing.= _Johnson._

=Nothing is more free than the imagination of man.= _Hume._

=Nothing is more hurtful to a truth than an= 20 =old error.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is more natural than that we should grow giddy at a great sight which comes unexpectedly before us, to make us feel at once our littleness and our greatness. But there is not in the world any truer enjoyment than at the moment when we are thus made giddy for the first time.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is more ruinous for a man than when he is mighty enough in any part to right himself without right.= _Jacobi._

=Nothing is more significant of the philosophy of a man than the footing on which he stands with his body. The Cynic neglects it, the Sybarite makes profit out of it, the Trappist disowns it, and the Idealist forgets it.= _Lindner._

=Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.= _Hume._

=Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in= 25 =action.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.= _Hazlitt._

=Nothing is more vulgar than haste.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is more offensive to reason= (_widerwärtiger_) =than an appeal to the majority; it consists of a few powerful leaders, of rogues who accommodate themselves, of weaklings who assimilate themselves, and of the mass who follow confusedly, without in the least knowing what they would be at.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is new; we walk where others went; / There's no vice now but has its precedent.= _Herrick._

=Nothing is of any value in books excepting the= 30 =transcendental and extraordinary.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is old but the mind.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is perfect until, in some way, it touches or passes through man.= _T. T. Munger._

=Nothing is permanently helpful to any race or condition of men but the spirit that is in their own hearts, kindled by the love of their native land.= _Ruskin._

=Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.= _Bacon._

=Nothing is poetry which does not transport;= 35 =the lyre is a winged instrument.= _Joubert._

=Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.= _Raleigh._

=Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.= _Whipple._

=Nothing is safe from fault-finders.= _Pr._

=Nothing is secret that shall not be made= 40 =manifest; neither anything hid that shall not be known.= _Jesus._

=Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is so beautiful to the eye as truth is to the mind; nothing so deformed and irreconcilable to the understanding as a lie.= _Locke._

=Nothing is so perfectly amusement as a total change of ideas.= _Sterne._

=Nothing is so conceivable= (_begreiflich_) =to the child, nothing seems to be so natural to him, as the marvellous or supernatural.= _Zachariä._

=Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.= 45 _La Fontaine._

=Nothing is so difficult as to help a friend in matters which do not require the aid of friendship, but only a cheap and trivial service, if your friendship wants the basis of a thorough practical acquaintance.= _Thoreau._

=Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labour alone. Though labour always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labour alone will do little.= _Haydon._

=Nothing is so grand as truth, nothing so forcible, nothing so novel.= _Landor._

=Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.= _Swift._

=Nothing is so narrowing, contracting, hardening,= 50 =as always to be moving in the same groove, with no thought beyond what we immediately see and hear close around us.= _Dean Stanley._

=Nothing is so new as what has been long forgotten.= _Ger. Pr._

=Nothing is so uncertain as the minds of the multitude.= _Leiz._

=Nothing is superficial to a deep observer. It is in trifles that the mind betrays itself.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, / But an eternal now does always last.= _Cowley._

=Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity.= 5 =The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.= _Pascal._

=Nothing is thought rare / Which is not new and followed; yet we know / That what was worn some twenty years ago / Comes into grace again.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._

=Nothing is to be preferred before justice.= _Socrates._

=Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.= _Hans Andersen._

=Nothing is true but what is simple.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is truly elegant but what unites use= 10 =with beauty.= _Goldsmith._

=Nothing leads to good which is not natural.= _Schiller._

=Nothing lovelier can be found / In woman than to study household good, / And good works in her husband to promote.= _Milton._

=Nothing makes love sweeter and tenderer than a little previous scolding and freezing, just as the grape-clusters acquire by a frost before vintage thinner skins and better flavour.= _Jean Paul._

=Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.= _Thoreau._

=Nothing marks the character of a young man= 15 =more than a failure.= _Anon._

=Nothing more readily pleases a vulgar mind than to find anomalies in conduct or character.= _Alex. Whitelaw._

=Nothing noble or godlike in the world but has in it something of "infinite sadness."= _Carlyle._

=Nothing not a reality ever yet got men to pay bed and board to it for long.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves.= _Goethe._

=Nothing on earth is without significance, but= 20 =the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when.= _Schiller._

=Nothing, or almost nothing, is certain to me, except the Divine Infernal character of this universe I live in, worthy of horror, worthy of worship.= _Carlyle._