Nature is always mysterious. Ward.

Nature is always right, and most profoundly so (am gründlichsten) just there where we least comprehend her. Goethe.

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

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

Nature is beyond all teaching. Pr. 35

Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God. Cowper.

Nature is commanded by obeying her. Bacon.

Nature is content with little, grace with less, but lust with nothing. Matthew Henry.

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

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

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the lawgiver is before the law-receiver. Emerson.

Nature is good, but she is not the best. Carlyle.

Nature is indeed adequate to Fear, but to Reverence not adequate. Goethe.

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

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest 45 way to her ends. Emerson.

Nature is not an Aggregate but a Whole. Carlyle.

Nature is not fixed, but fluid; spirit alters, moulds, makes it. Emerson.

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

Nature is sometimes subdued, but seldom extinguished. Bacon.

Nature is still the grand agent in making 50 poets. Carlyle.

Nature is the art of God. Sir Thomas Browne.

Nature is the best posture-master. Emerson.

Nature is the immense shadow of man. Emerson.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God. Goethe.

Nature is the only book that teems with meaning on every page. Goethe.

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

Nature knows no equality; her sovereign 5 law is subordination and dependence. Vauvenargues.

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

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

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

Nature makes us vagabonds, the world makes us respectable. Alexander Smith.

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

Nature must obey necessity. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.

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

Nature needs little, fancy (Wahn) much. Gr. Pr.

Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her. Wordsworth.

Nature never hurries; atom by atom, little 15 by little, she achieves her work. Emerson.

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

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

Nature owns no man who is not a martyr withal. Carlyle.

Nature passes nurture. Pr.

Nature respects race and not hybrids. Knox. 20

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

Nature smiles as sweet, I ween, / To shepherds as to kings. Burns.

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

Nature, study, and practice must combine to ensure proficiency in any art. Arist.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom 25 which cannot help itself. Emerson.

Nature takes as much pains in the forming of a beggar as an emperor. Pr.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. Cor.

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

Nature trips us up when we strut. Emerson.

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

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

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

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

Nature without discipline is of small force, and discipline without nature more feeble. John Lily.

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

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

Nature works on the method of all for each and each for all. Emerson.

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

Nature's above art. Lear, iv. 6.

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. 40 Duke of Buckingham.

Nature's shadows are ever varying. Wm. Blake.

Nature's tears are Reason's merriment. Rom. and Jul., iv. 5.

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

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

Natus nemo—Not a born soul. Plaut. 45

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

Naufragium in portu facere—To make shipwreck in port. Quinct.

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

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

Nay, that's past praying for. 1 Henry IV., 50 ii. 4.

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

Ne Æsopum quidem trivit—He is a backward pupil (lit. he has not yet thumbed Æsop).

Ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito—Yield not to misfortunes, but rather go more boldly to meet them. Virg.

Ne depugnes in alieno negotio—Do not take up the cudgels in another man's affairs. Pr.

Ne exeat regno—Let him not go out of the kingdom. (A writ to prevent a person leaving the country). L.

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

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

Ne fronti crede—Trust not to appearances.

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

Ne Jupiter quidem omnibus placet—Not even Jupiter can please everybody. Pr.

Ne nimium—Not too much. M. 10

Ne obliviscaris—Do not forget. M.

Ne plus ultra—What cannot be surpassed; perfection (lit. no more beyond).

Né pour la digestion—Born merely to consume good things. La Bruyère.

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

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

Ne quid nimis—Let there be no excess. M.

Ne sutor supra crepidam—Let the cobbler stick to his last. Pliny.

Ne te longis ambagibus ultra / Quam satis est morer—To make a long story short (lit. not to detain you by long digressions more than enough). Hor.

Ne te quæsiveris extra—Seek not thyself outside of thyself.

Ne tempora perde precando—Lose not the time 20 that offers itself by praying. Ovid.

Ne tentes, aut perfice—Either attempt not, or go through with it. M.

Ne vile fano—Bring nothing base to the temple. M.

Ne vile velis—Incline to nothing vile. M.

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

Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin. 25 Pr.

Nearer the kirk the farther frae grace. Sc. Pr.

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

Neat, not gaudy. Charles Lamb.

Nec aspera terrent—Not even hardships deter us. M.

Nec caput nec pedes—In confusion; neither 30 head nor tail. Pr.

Nec cui de te plusquam tibi credas—Do not believe any man more than yourself about yourself. Pr.

Nec cupias, nec metuas—Neither desire nor fear. M.

Nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus—Never let a god interfere unless a difficulty arise worthy of a god's interposition. Hor.

Nec domo dominus, sed domino domus honestanda est—The master should not be graced by the mansion, but the mansion by the master. Cic.

Nec est ad astra mollis e terris via—The 35 way from the earth to the stars is no soft one. Sen.

Nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo—I neither have, nor want, nor care. M.

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

Nec male notus eques—A knight of good repute. M.

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

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

Nec mora, nec requies—Neither delay nor cessation. Virg.

Nec morti esse locum—There is no room for death. Ovid.

Nec obolum habet unde restim emat—He hasn't a penny left to buy a halter. Pr.

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

Nec placida contentus quiete est—Nor is he 45 contented with quiet repose. M.

Nec pluribus impar—Not an unequal match for numbers. M.

Nec prece nec pretio—Neither by entreaty nor by a bribe. M.

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

Nec quærere nec spernere honorem—Neither to seek nor to despise honours. M.

Nec regi nec populo, sed utrique—Neither for 50 king nor for people, but for both. M.

Nec scire fas est omnia—It is not permitted us to know all things. Hor.

Nec si non obstatur propterea etiam permittitur—That an act is not prohibited, it does not follow that it is permitted. Cic.

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

Nec soli cedit—He yields not even to the sun. M.

Nec temere nec timide—Neither rashly nor 55 timidly. M.

Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit / Occurrat—And let it not concern you what you may do, but what you ought to do. Claud.

Nec timeo, nec sperno—I neither fear nor despise. M.

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

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

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

Nec vultu destrue dicta tuo—Do not discredit your words by your looks. Ovid.

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

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

Necesse est ut multos timeat, quem multi timent—He whom many fear must necessarily fear many. Syr.

Necessità 'l c' induce, e non diletto—Necessity, not pleasure, brings him here. Dante.

Necessitas non habet legem—Necessity has no law.

Necessity does everything well. Emerson. 10

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

Necessity is the mistress of the arts. Pr.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Pr.

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

Necessity makes even cowards brave. Pr. 15

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich. Tac.

Necessity unites hearts. Ger. Pr.

Necessity urges desperate measures. Cervantes.

Necio es quien piensa que otros no piensan—He is a fool who thinks that others don't think. Sp. Pr.

Need mak's an auld wife trot. Sc. Pr. 20

Needles and pins, needles and pins! / When a man marries his trouble begins. Pr.

Needs must when the devil drives. Sc. Pr.

Ne'er grudge and carp, / Though fortune use you hard and sharp. Burns.

Ne'er let your gear owergang ye, i.e., never let your wealth get the better of you. Sc. Pr.

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

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

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

Ne'er the rose without the thorn. Herrick.

Ne'er trust muckle to an auld enemy or a new freend. Sc. Pr.

Neglecta solent incendia sumere vires—A fire, 30 if neglected, always gathers in strength. Hor.

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. Feltham.

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

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

Nehmt die Stimmung wahr, / Denn sie kommt so selten—Take advantage of the right mood, for it comes so seldom. Goethe.

Neid zu fühlen, ist menschlich; Schadenfreude 35 zu geniessen, teuflisch—To feel envy is human; to joy in mischief is devilish. Schopenhauer.

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

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

Neither crow nor croak. Pr.

Neither exalt your pleasures, nor aggravate your vexations, beyond their real and natural state. Johnson.

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

Neither hew down the whole forest, nor come home without wood. Serv. Pr.

Neither lead nor drive. Pr.

Neither our virtues nor vices are all our own. Johnson.

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

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

Neither rhyme nor reason. Shakespeare.

Neither seek nor shun the fight. Gael. Pr.

Neither sign a paper without reading it, nor drink water without seeing it. Sp. Pr.

Neither wise men nor fools / Can work without tools. Pr.

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

Neither women nor linen by candlelight. Pr.

[Greek: Nekros ou daknei]—A dead man doesn't bite. Plutarch.

Nem. con., abbrev. for Nemine contradicente—Nobody opposing.

Nem. diss., abbrev. for Nemine dissentiente—Same as above.

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

Nemesis is lame, but she is of colossal stature, like the gods. George Eliot.

Nemo allegans suam turpitudinem audiendus est—No one testifying to his own baseness ought to be heard. L.

Nemo dat quod non habet—Nobody can give what he does not legally possess. L.

Nemo debet bis puniri pro uno delicto—No man shall be twice punished for the same offence. L.

Nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa—No one shall be molested twice for one and the same cause. L.

Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa—No 5 one ought to be judge in his own cause. L.

Nemo doctus mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse—No sensible man ever charged one with inconstancy who had merely changed his opinion. Cic.

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

Nemo ex proprio dolo consequitur actionem—No man can sue at law upon his own fraud. L.

Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam nunquam moriendi—No man can ever obtain from the Pope a dispensation from death. Thomas à Kempis.

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

Nemo læditur nisi a seipso—No man is harmed but by himself. Pr.

Nemo malus felix, minime corruptor—No bad man is happy, least of all a seducer. Juv.

Nemo mathematicus genium indemnatus habebit—No astronomer will be held a genius until he is condemned. Juv.

Nemo me impune lacessit—No one provokes me with impunity. M. of Scotland.

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

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

Nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius injuriam—No one can change what he proposes to enact to the damage of another. L.

Nemo potest nudo vestimenta detrahere—You cannot strip a garment off a naked man. Pr.

Nemo potest personam diu ferre fictam—No one can play a feigned part long. Sen.

Nemo præsumitur alienam posteritatem suæ 20 prætulisse—No one is presumed to have preferred another's offspring to his own. L.

Nemo punitur pro alieno delicto—No one must be punished for the fault of another. L.

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

Nemo repente fuit turpissimus—No man ever became extremely wicked all at once. Juv.

Nemo sibi nascitur—No one is born for himself. Pr.

Nemo solus sapit—No man is wise by himself. 25 Plaut.

Nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare—No one is held bound to criminate himself. L.

Nemo vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit—There never was a great man who had not some divine inspiration. Cic.

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

Nequaquam satis in re una consumere curam—It is by no means enough to spend all our care on a single object. Hor.

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

Neque fœmina, amissa pudicitia, alia abnuerit—When a woman has once lost her chastity, she will shrink from nothing. Tac.

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

Neque opinione sed natura constitutum est jus—Not in opinion, but in nature is law founded. Cic.

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

Neque semper arcum / Tendit Apollo—Apollo does not always keep his bow bent. Hor.

Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit—He is wise to no purpose who is not wise for himself. Pr.

Nervus rerum—The sinews of things.

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

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

Nescio qua præter solitum dulcedine læti—Elated 40 beyond usual by some unaccountable delight. Virg.

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

Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem—You little know what a frightful thing it is to go to law. Plaut.

Nescit vox missa reverti—A word once uttered can never be recalled. Hor.

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

Nessuno nasce maestro—No one is born a 45 master. It. Pr.

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

Neutral men are the devil's allies. Chapin.

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

Never anger / Made good guard for itself. Ant. and Cleo., iv. 1.

Never anything can be amiss / When simpleness and duty tender it. Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.

Never ask a favour of a man until he has had his dinner. Punch.

Never be afraid to doubt, if only you have the disposition to believe. Leighton.

Never bray at an ass. Pr. 5

Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle. Pr.

Never buy a pig in a poke. Pr.

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

Never cackle till your egg is laid. Pr.

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

Never deal in mistakes; they aye bring mischances. Scott.

Never deceive a friend. Hipparchus.

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

Never despise the day of small things. Pr.

Never disregard what your enemies say. B. 15 R. Haydon.

Never do anything of the rectitude of which you have a doubt. Pliny.

Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself. It. Pr.

Never do things by halves. Pr.

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

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

Never fall out with your bread and butter. Pr.

Never find fault with the absent. Pr.

Never fish in troubled waters. Pr.

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

Never fry a fish till it's caught. Pr. 25

Never give up the ship. Pr.

Never grudge a penny for a pennyworth. Pr.

Never grumble nor mumble. Pr.

Never hang a man twice for one offence. Pr.

Never have an idle hour, or an idle pound. Pr. 30

Never hold a candle to the devil. Pr.

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

Never is a lang term. Sc. Pr.

Never is a long day. Pr.

Never king dropped out of the clouds. Power. 35

Never lean on a broken staff. Pr.

Never leave a certainty for an uncertainty. Pr.

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. Ben. Franklin.

Never let any one see the bottom of your purse or your mind. It. Pr.

Never let Fortune be thy mistress, nor Misfortune 40 thy maid. Bodenstedt.

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

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

Never look a gift-horse in the mouth. Pr.

Never look for a knot in a bulrush. Pr.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests 45 of the last. Cervantes.

Never make a jest of any Scripture expressions. Judge Hale.

Never meet trouble half way. Pr.

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

Never mind who was your grandfather. What are you? Pr.

Never morning wore / To evening, but some 50 heart did break. Tennyson.

Never neglect small matters and expenses. It. Pr.

Never offer to teach fish to swim. Pr.

Never preach beyond your experience. Pr.

Never put your arm out farther than you can draw it back again. Scott.

Never put your hand into a wasp's nest. Pr. 55

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

Never repeat old grievances. Pr.

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

Never say die! / Up, man, and try! Pr.

Never say of another what you would not have 60 him hear. Pr.

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

Never shirk the hardest work. Pr.

Never sigh, but send. Pr.

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

Never speak ill of those whose bread you eat. 65 Pr.

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

Never spur a willing horse. Pr.

Never stint soap and water. Pr.

Never swap horses while crossing a stream. Pr.

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

Never tell in the parlour what you heard in the kitchen. Pr.

Never tell your resolution before-hand. Wisdom. 5

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

Never throw a hen's egg at a sparrow. Pr.

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

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

Never too old to turn; never too late to learn. 10 Pr.

Never trouble yourself with trouble till trouble troubles you. Pr.

Never trust a wolf with the care of lambs. Pr.

Never try to prove what nobody doubts. Pr.

Never venture all in one bottom. Pr.

Never was scraper (miser) brave man. Herbert. 15

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

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

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

Never write what you dare not sign. Pr.

Never yet created eye / Could see across eternity. 20 Keble.

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

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

Never yet / Was noble man but made ignoble talk. Tennyson.

New acquests are more burden than strength. Bacon.

New brooms sweep clean. Pr. 25

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

New laws, new frauds. Pr.

New lords, new laws. Pr.

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

New presbyter is but old priest writ large. 30 Milton.

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

New scenes impress new ideas, enrich the imagination, and enlarge the power of reason. Johnson.

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

Next in importance to the matter of books are their titles. Davies.

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

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

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. Thackeray.

Next to nae wife, a gude wife is the best. Sc. Pr.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. Bacon.

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.