No artist-work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child. Charlotte Cushman.
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. Landor.
No atheist denies a divinity, but only some name of a divinity; the God is still present there, working in that benighted heart, were it only as a god of darkness. Carlyle.
No author can be as moral as his works, as no preacher is as pious as his sermons. Jean Paul.
No author ever spared a brother; / Wits are 5 gamecocks to one another. Gay.
No author is a man of genius to his publisher. Heine.
No autumn fruit without spring blossoms. Pr.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. Rich. III., i. 2.
No bees, no honey; / No work, no money. Pr.
No belief of ours will change the facts or 10 reverse the laws of the spiritual universe; and it is our first business to discover the laws and to learn how the facts stand. Dr. Dale.
No belief which is contrary to truth can be really useful. J. S. Mill.
No bird ever flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food. Dut. Pr.
No blank, no trifle, Nature made or meant. Young.
No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again. Ruskin.
No book that will not improve by repeated 15 readings deserves to be read at all. Carlyle.
No book was ever written down by any but itself. Bentley.
No ceremony that to great one 'longs, / Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, / The marshal's truncheon nor the judge's robe, / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
No chair is so much wanted (in our colleges) as that of a professor of books. Emerson.
No chaos can continue chaotic with a soul in it. Carlyle.
No character was ever rightly understood 20 until it had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance only, but of sympathy. Carlyle.
No cheerfulness can ever be produced by effort which is itself painful. Goldsmith.
No cloth is too fine for moth to devour. Pr.
No compound of this earthly ball / Is like another all in all. Tennyson.
No conflict is so severe as his who labours to subdue himself. Thomas à Kempis.
No conquest can ever become permanent 25 which does not withal show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. Carlyle.
No corn without chaff. Dut. Pr.
No; creation, one would think, cannot be easy; your Jove has severe pains, and fire flames, in the head out of which an armed Pallas is struggling. Carlyle.
No creature smarts so little as a fool. Pope.
No crime is so great as daring to excel. Churchill.
No cross, no crown. Quarles. 30
No diga la lengua par do pague la cabeza—The tongue talks at the head's cost. Sp. Pr.
No distance breaks the tie of blood: / Brothers are brothers evermore; / Nor wrong, nor wrath of deadliest mood, / That magic may o'erpower. Keble.
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. Job, in Bible.
No doubt every person is entitled to make and to think as much of himself as possible, only he ought not to worry others about this, for they have enough to do with and in themselves, if they too are to be of some account, both now and hereafter. Goethe.
No dynamite will ever be invented that can 35 rule; it can but dissolve and destroy. Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern. Ruskin.
No earnest man, in any time, ever spoke what was wholly meaningless. Carlyle.
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself. C. Kingsley.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Lady Montagu.
No errors are so mischievous as those of great men. Pr.
No evil can touch him who looks on human 40 beauty; he feels himself at one with himself and with the world. Goethe.
No evil dies so soon as that which has been patiently sustained. W. Secker.
No evil is felt till it comes, and when it comes no counsel helps. Wisdom is always too early and too late. Rückert.
No evil is without its compensation. Sen.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Sen.
No experiment is dangerous the result of which 45 we have the courage to meet. Goethe.
No expression of politeness but has its root in the moral nature of man. Goethe.
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, / All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. Moore.
No fact in nature but carries the whole sense of nature. Emerson.
No falsehood can endure / Touch of celestial temper. Milton.
No fathers or mothers think their own children 50 ugly. Cervantes.
No fishing like fishing in the sea. Pr.
No flattery, boy; an honest man can't live by 't; / It is a little sneaking art, which knaves / Use to cajole and soften fools withal. Otway.
No fool was ever so foolish, but some one thought him clever. Pr.
No fountain so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom. Hawthorne.
No friend a friend until he shall prove a friend. 55 Beaumont and Fletcher.
No frost can freeze Providence. Pr.
No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes. Carlyle.
No girl who is well bred, kind, and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners or of heart. Ruskin.
No golden age ever called itself golden, but only expected one. Jean Paul.
No good book or good thing of any sort shows its best face at first; nay, the commonest quality in a true work of art, if its excellence have any depth and compass, is that at first sight it occasions a certain disappointment. Carlyle.
No good doctor ever takes physic. It. Pr. 5
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. Ruskin.
No good lawyer ever goes to law himself. It. Pr.
No good or lovely thing exists in this world without its correspondent darkness; and the universe presents itself continually to mankind under the stern aspect of warning, or of choice, the good and the evil set on the right hand and the left. Ruskin.
No good work whatever can be perfect; and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. Ruskin.
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill. 10 Corn. Nepos.
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself. Ward Beecher.
No grain of sand / But moves a bright and million-peopled land, / And hath its Eden and its Eves, I deem. Blanchard.
No grand doer in this world can be a copious speaker about his doings. Carlyle.
No great composition was ever produced but with the same heavenly involuntariness in which a bird builds her nest. Ruskin.
No great intellectual thing was ever done 15 by great effort. Ruskin.
No great man was ever other than a genuine man. Carlyle.
No great truth is allowed by Nature to be demonstrable to any person who, foreseeing its consequences, desires to refuse it. Ruskin.
No greater hell than to be a slave to fear. Ben Jonson.
No greater men are now than ever were. Emerson.
No greater misfortune can befall a man than 20 to be the victim of an idea which has no hold on his life, still more which detaches him from it. Goethe.
No greater promisers than those who have nothing to give. Pr.
No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are past. Byron.
No hay dulzura sin sudor—No sweetness without sweat. Sp. Pr.
No hay tal razon como la del baston—There is no argument like that of a stick. Sp. Pr.
No heart opens to sympathy without letting 25 in delicacy. J. M. Barrie.
No Hecuba, by aid of rouge and ceruse, is a Helen made. Cowper.
No herb will cure love. Pr.
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she may give birth to one. Jean Paul.
No honestly exerted force can be utterly lost. Carlyle.
No horse so blind as the blind mare. Pr. 30
No house without mouse; no throne without thorn. Pr.
No human capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing; but we may see more and more of it the longer we look. Ruskin.
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. Ruskin.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a stain from the struggle of life. Renan.
No intellectual images are without use. Johnson. 35
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve. Carlyle.
"No" is a surly, honest fellow—speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. Scott.
No joy so great but runneth to an end; / No hap so hard but may in time amend. Robert Southwell.
No joy without alloy. Pr.
No knowledge is lost, but perfected, and 40 changed for much nobler, sweeter, greater knowledge. Baxter.
No labour is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at. S. Hieron.
No law can be finally sacred to me but the law of my own nature. Emerson.
No leaf moves but as God wills it. Sp. Pr.
No legacy is so rich as honesty. All's Well, iii. 5.
No lie you can speak or act, but it will come, 45 after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's reality, and be presented there for payment, with the answer: "No effects." Carlyle.
No literature is complete until the language in which it is written is dead. Longfellow.
No longer pipe, no longer dance. Pr.
No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at once, without severe reasons. Ruskin.
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following openly-declared purposes, and preaching candidly-beloved and trusted creeds. Ruskin.
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always 50 for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends. Carlyle.
No man at the head of affairs always wishes to be explicit. Macaulay.
No man bathes twice in the same river. Heraclitus.
No man beholdeth prosperity who doth not encounter danger; but having encountered danger, if he surviveth, he beholdeth it. Hitopadesa.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. Johnson.
No man can antedate his experience. Emerson. 55
No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger. La Roche.
No man can be a good poet without first being a good man. Ben Jonson.
No man can be a poet / That is not a good cook, to know the palates / And several tastes of the time. Ben Jonson.
No man can be a hero in anything who is not first of all a hero in faith. Jacobi.
No man can be brave who considers pain to be 5 the greatest evil of life; nor temperate, who considers pleasure to be the highest good. Cic.
No man can be good, or great, or happy, except through inward efforts of his own. F. W. Robertson.
No man can be said to have the spirit who does not walk in it, or to be born of the spirit until the spirit is born of him. Ed.
No man can be so entirely a devil as to extinguish in himself the last ray of light. Th. Körner.
No man can become largely rich by his personal toil, but only by discovery of some method of taxing the labour of others. Ruskin.
No man can buy anything in the market with 10 gentility. Lord Burleigh.
No man can, for a length of time, be wholly wretched, if there is not a disharmony (a folly and wickedness) within himself; neither can the richest Crœsus, and never so eupeptic, be other than discontented, perplexed, unhappy, if he be a fool. Carlyle.
No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct. Kossuth.
No man can gather cherries in Kent at the season of Christmas. Pr.
No man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree with that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us. Colton.
No man can learn what he has not preparation 15 for learning, however near to his eyes the object may be. Emerson.
No man can live half a life when he has genuinely learned that it is only half a life. The other half, the higher half, must haunt him. Philips Brooks.
No man can lose what he never had. Walton.
No man can make a good coat with bad cloth. Pr.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. Lowell.
No man can quite emancipate himself from his 20 age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share. Emerson.
No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. Noah Porter.
No man can say in what degree any other person, besides himself, can be, with strict justice, called wicked. Burns.
No man can see over his own height. Pr.
No man can serve two masters. Jesus.
No man can thoroughly master more than one 25 art or science. Hazlitt.
No man can transcend his own individuality. Schopenhauer.
No man doth safely appear abroad but he who can abide at home. Thomas à Kempis.
No man doth safely rule but he that hath learned gladly to obey. Thomas à Kempis.
No man doth safely speak but he who is glad to hold his peace. Thomas à Kempis.
No man ever became, or can become, largely 30 rich merely by labour and economy. Ruskin.
No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. Fisher Ames.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. Emerson.
No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. Emerson.
No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. John Neale.
No man flatters the woman he truly loves. 35 Tuckermann.
No man had ever a point of pride but was injurious to him. Burke.
No man has a claim to credit upon his own word, when better evidence, if he had it, may be easily produced. Johnson.
No man has a prosperity so high and firm but two or three words can dishearten it. Emerson.
No man has a right to say to his own generation, turning quite away from it, "Be damned." Carlyle to Emerson.
No man has a worse friend than he brings 40 with him from home. Pr.
No man has any data for estimating, far less right of judging, the results of a life of resolute self-denial, until he has had the courage to try it himself. Ruskin.
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him he gives him for mankind. Phillips Brooks.
No man has worked, or can work, except religiously. Carlyle.
No man hath a thorough taste of prosperity to whom adversity never happened. (?)
No man hath a velvet cross. Pr. 45
No man hath a virtue that he has not a glimpse of; nor any man an attaint, but he carries some stain of it. Troil. and Cress., i. 2.
No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. Jesus.
No man is a good physician who has never been sick. Arab. Pr.
No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre. Prince de Condé, from Plutarch.
No man is always wise except a fool. Pr. 50
No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him; there is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil. Lowell.
No man is born wise or learned. Pr.
No man is either worthy of a good home here or a heaven hereafter that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause. Capt. John Brown.
No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women. Sir W. Raleigh.
No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty. Froude.
No man is ever hurt but by himself. Diogenes.
No man is ever paid for his real work, or should 5 ever expect or demand angrily to be paid; all work properly so called is an appeal from the seen to the unseen—a devout calling upon higher powers; and unless they stand by us, it will not be a work, but a quackery. Carlyle.
No man is free who cannot command himself. Pythagoras.
No man is good but as he wishes the good of others. Johnson.
No man is justified in resisting by word or deed the authority he lives under for a light cause, be such authority what it may. Carlyle.
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. Sen.
No man is poor who does not think himself so. 10 But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. Jeremy Taylor.
No man is quite sane; each has a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart. Emerson.
No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. Haliburton.
No man is so free as a beggar, and no man more solemnly a servant than an honest land-owner. Ruskin.
No man is so happy as never to give offence. Thomas à Kempis.
No man is so old but thinks he may live 15 another day. Pythagoras.
No man is so sufficient as never to need assistance. Thomas à Kempis.
No man is so tall that he need never stretch, nor so small that he need never stoop. Dan. Pr.
No man is so worthy of envy as he that can be cheerful in want. Bp. Hall.
No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself. Ward Beecher.
No man is the wiser for his learning.... Wit 20 and wisdom are born with a man. Selden.
No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself. Pr.
No man is to be deemed free who has not perfect self-command. Pythagoras.
No man is wise enough or good enough to be intrusted with unlimited power. Colton.
No man is wise or safe but be that is honest. Sir W. Raleigh.
No man is without enemies. Arab. Pr. 25
No man is without his load of trouble. Thomas à Kempis.
No man lives so poor as he was born. Pr.
No man loves to frustrate expectations which have been formed in his favour. Johnson.
No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold. Pr.
No man needs money so much as he who 30 despises it. Jean Paul.
No man needs to study history to find out what is best for his own culture. Thoreau.
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Phillips Brooks.
No man perhaps suspects how large and important the region of unconsciousness in him is; what a vast, unknown territory lies there back of his conscious will and purpose, and which is really the controlling power of his life. John Burroughs.
No man praises happiness as he would justice, but calls it blessed, as being something more divine and excellent. Arist.
No man regards an eruption upon the surface 35 when the noble parts are invaded, and he feels a mortification approaching to his heart. Junius.
"No man," said Pestalozzi, "in God's wide universe, is either willing or able to help any other man." Help must come from the bosom alone. Emerson.
No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses. Carlyle.
No man should be so much taken up in the search of truth, as thereby to neglect the more necessary duties of active life. Cic.
No man should enter into alliance with his enemy, even with the tightest bonds of union. Water made ever so hot will still quench fire. Hitopadesa.
No man should ever be ashamed to own he 40 has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. Pope.
No man should ever display his bravery who is unprepared for battle; nor bear the marks of defiance, until he hath experienced the abilities of his enemy. Hitopadesa.
No man should form an acquaintance, nor enter into any amusements, with one of an evil character. A piece of charcoal, if it be hot, burneth; and if it be cold, blackeneth the hand. Hitopadesa.
No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another. Channing.
No man should strive to precede his fellows; for, should the work succeed, the booty is equal, and if it fail, the leader is punished. Hitopadesa.
No man should think so highly of himself as 45 to think he can receive but little light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them. Johnson.
No man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed. Johnson.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. Goethe.
No man troubleth the beggar with questioning his religion or politics. Lamb.
No man was ever as rich as all men ought to be. Old saying.
No man was ever scolded out of his sins. 50 Cowper.
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. Lord Greville.
No man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. Monk.
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. Johnson, of Goldsmith.
No man whatever believes, or can believe, exactly what his grandfather believed. Carlyle.
No man who does not choose, enter into and 5 walk in some narrow way of life, will ever have any moral character, any clearness of purpose, any wisdom of intelligence, or any tenderness or strength of heart. Ed.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Carlyle.
No man who is wretched in his own heart and feeble in his own work can rightly help others. Ruskin.
No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. Hawthorne.
No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man. Johnson.
No man's pie is freed / From his ambitious 10 finger. Hen. VIII., i. 1.
No man's religion ever survives his morals. South.
No mata la carga sino la sobrecarga—Not the load, but the overload kills. Sp. Pr.
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Emerson.
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and happiest of the children of men. J. A. Langford.
No might nor greatness in mortality / Can censure 15 'scape; back-wounding calumny / The whitest virtue strikes. Meas. for Meas., iii. 2.
No mill, no meal. Pr.
No more can you distinguish of a man / Than of his outward show; which, God he knows, / Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart. Rich. III., iii. 1.
No more dangerous snare is set by the fiends for human frailty than the belief that our enemies are also the enemies of God. Ruskin.
No more of your titled acquaintances boast, / And in what lordly circles you've been: / An insect is still but an insect at most, / Though it crawl on the head of a queen. Burns.
No more subtle master under heaven / Than 20 is the maiden-passion for a maid, / Not only to keep down the base in man, / But teach high thought, and amiable words / And courtliness, and the desire of fame, / And love of truth, and all that makes a man. Tennyson.
No morning can restore what we have forfeited. George Meredith.
No mortal can both work and do good talking in Parliament or out of it; the feat is impossible as that of serving two hostile masters. Carlyle.
No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something. Carlyle.
No mortal's endeavour or attainment will, in the smallest, content the as unendeavouring, unattaining young gentleman; but he could make it all infinitely better, were it worthy of him. Carlyle.
No mother worthy of the name ever gave herself 25 thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown. Beecher.
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. J. G. Holland.
No nation can bear wealth that is not intelligent first. Ward Beecher.
No nation can reform itself, as the English are now trying to do, by what their newspapers call "tremendous cheers." Reform is not joyous, but grievous; no single man can reform himself without stern suffering and stern working; how much less can a nation of men! Medea, when she made men young again, was wont to hew them in pieces with meat-axes; cast them into caldrons, and boil them for a length of time. How much handier could they have but done it by "tremendous cheers" alone! Carlyle.
No need to teach your grandames to suck eggs. Pr.
No news is good news. Pr. 30
No, no! I am but shadow of myself; / You are deceived, my substance is not here. 1 Hen. VI., ii. 3.
No noble task was ever easy. Carlyle.
No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. Carlyle.
No, not even faith, or hope, or any other virtue, is accepted by God without charity and grace. Thomas à Kempis.
No oath that binds to wrong can ever bind. 35 Dr. Walter Smith.
No one can bake cakes for the whole world. Serv. Pr.
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise that, as a thinker, it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. J. S. Mill.
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. Sen.
No one can be in perfect accord with any one but himself. Schopenhauer.
No one can feel and exercise benevolence towards 40 another who is ill at ease with himself. Goethe.
No one can find himself in himself or others; in fact, he has himself to spin, from the centre of which he exercises his influence. Goethe.
No one can obtain what he does not bring with him. Goethe.
No one can teach religion who has it not. Jean Paul.
No one can teach you anything worth learning but through manual labour; the very bread of life can only be got out of the chaff of it by rubbing it in your hands. Ruskin.
No one claims kindred with the poor. Pr. 45
No one easily arrives at the conclusion that reason and a brave will are given us that we may not only hold back from evil, but also from the extreme of good. Goethe.
No one eats goldfish. Pr.
No one ever impoverished himself by almsgiving. It. Pr.
No one ever possessed superior intellectual qualities without knowing them. Bulwer.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, 50 or governs well who wants to govern. Plato.
No one falls low unless he attempt to climb high. Dan. Pr.
No one gets into trouble without his own help. Dan. Pr.
No one has ever learned fully to know himself. Goethe.
No one has ever yet succeeded in deceiving the whole world, nor has the world ever combined to deceive any individual. (?)
No one has seen to-morrow. Port. Pr. 5
No one is a slave whose will is free. Tyrius Maximus.
No one is by nature noble, respected of any one, nor a wretch. His own actions conduct him either to wretchedness or to the reverse. Hitopadesa.
No one is free who is not master of himself. Claudius.
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. Jean Paul.
No one is qualified to converse in public who is 10 not highly contented without such conversation. Thomas à Kempis.
No one is qualified to entertain, or receive entertainment from others, who cannot entertain himself alone with satisfaction. Thomas à Kempis.
No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour. Dan. Pr.
No one is so hardy as to say God is in his debt, that he owed him a nobler being, for existence must be antecedent to merit. Jeremy Collier.
No one knows how far his powers go till he has tried. Goethe.
No one knows the weight of another's burden. 15 Pr.
No one knows what he is doing while he is acting rightly, but of what is wrong we are always conscious. Goethe.
No one knows when he is well off. Punch.
No one knows where the shoe pinches but him who wears it. Pr.
No one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Plato.
No one likes to bell the cat. Pr. 20
No one shall look for effectual help to another; but each shall rest content with what help he can afford himself. Carlyle.
No one will become anything, every one will already be something. Goethe.
No one would respect thee in a beggar's coat. What is the respect paid to woollen cloth, not to thee? Jean Paul.
No one would talk much in society if he only knew how often he misunderstands others. Goethe.
No orator can measure in effect with him who 25 can give good nicknames. Emerson.
No order or profession of men is so sacred, no place so remote or solitary, but that temptations and troubles will find them out and intrude upon them. Thomas à Kempis.
No outward tyranny can reach the mind. Junius.
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden so well as her own reserve. Cervantes.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. William Penn.
No pains, no gains. Pr. 30
No passions are without their use, none without their nobleness, when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend. Ruskin.
No patient will ever recover his health merely from the description of a medicine. Hitopadesa.
No pay is receivable by any true man; but power is receivable by him in the love and faith you give him. Ruskin.
No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin—victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts. Ruskin.
No penny, no paternoster. Pr. 35
No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion. They do not feel responsible for it; it lies far outside of them. Emerson.
No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines. La Roche.
No pillow so soft as God's promise. Saying.
No pin's point can you mark within the wide circle of the All where God's laws are not. Carlyle.
No place, no company, no age, no person is 40 temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted; let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all. Spencer.
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. Emerson.
No power of good can be obtained by doing nothing and by knowing nothing. Johnson.
No prayer, no religion, or at least only a dumb and lame one. Carlyle.
No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. Henry Giles.
No productiveness of the highest kind, no remarkable 45 discovery, no great thought which bears fruit and has results, is in the power of any one; such things are exalted above all earthly control. Man must consider them as an unexpected gift from above, as pure children of God, which he must receive and venerate with joyful thanks, ... as a vessel found worthy for the reception of such divine influence. Goethe.
No profit canst thou gain / By self-consuming care. Wesley.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en: / In brief, sir, study what you most affect. Tam. the Shrew, i. 1.
No property is eternal but God the Maker's: Whom Heaven permits to take possession, his is the right; Heaven's sanction is such permission—while it lasts. Carlyle.
No real happiness is found / In trailing purple o'er the ground. Parnell.
No really great man ever thought himself so. 50 Hazlitt.
No receiver, no thief. Pr.
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.