=N'aboyez pas à la lune=--Do not cry out to no
purpose (_lit._ don't bark at the moon). _Fr. Pr._
=N'est on jamais tyran qu'avec un diadème?=--Is
a man never a tyrant except he wear a crown?
_Chénier._
=N'importe=--No matter. _Fr._
=N'oubliez=--Do not forget. _M._
=Naboth was right to hold on to his home.= 40
=There were garnered memories that all the
wealth of Ahab could not buy.= _Ward Beecher._
=Nace en la huerta lo que no siembra el hortelano=--More
grows in the garden than the gardener
ever sowed there. _Sp. Pr._
=Nach Canossa gehen wir nicht=--We are not
going to Canossa (where Henry IV. humbled
himself before the Pope). _Bismarck._
=Nach Ehre geizt die Jugend; / Lass dich den
Ehrgeiz nicht verführen=--Youth is covetous of
honour; let not this covetousness seduce thee.
_Schiller._
=Nach Freiheit strebt der Mann, das Weib
nach Sitte=--The man strives after freedom, the
woman after good manners. _Goethe._
=Nach Golde drängt, / Am Golde hängt, / Doch= 45
=alles. Ach, wir Armen!=--Yet after gold every
one presses, on gold everything hangs. Alas!
we poor ones. _Goethe._
=Nach Gottes Wesenheit ist gar nicht dein
Beruf zu forschen; forsche du nach Wesen,
die er schuf=--Thou art not required to search
into the nature of God, but into the nature of the
beings which he has created. _Rückert._
=Nacheifern ist beneiden=--To emulate is to envy.
_Lessing._
=Nachgeben stillt allen Krieg=--Yielding stills
all war. _Ger. Pr._
=Nacht muss es sein, wo Friedlands Sterne
strahlen=--It must be night where Friedland's
stars shine. _Schiller._
=Næ amicum castigare ob meritam noxiam /
Immune est facinus=--Verily, it is a thankless
office to censure a friend for a fault when he
deserves it. _Plaut._
=Nae butter 'll stick to my bread,= _i.e._, no good
fortune ever comes my way. _Sc. Pr._
=Nae freen' like the penny.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae fules like auld fules.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae man can be happy without a friend, nor= 5
=be sure of him till he's unhappy.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae man can live at peace unless his neighbours
let him.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae man can mak' his ain hap= (destiny). _Sc.
Pr._
=Nae man can tether time or tide.= _Burns._
=Nae man can thrive unless his wife will let
him.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae man has a tack= (lease) =o' his life.= _Sc._ 10
_Pr._
=Nae man is wise at a' times, nor wise on a'
things.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae treasures nor pleasures / Could mak' us
happy lang, / The heart aye's the part aye /
That mak's us right or wrang.= _Burns._
=Nae wonder ye're auld like; ilka thing fashes=
(bothers) =ye.= _Sc. Pr._
=Naething is a man's truly but what he cometh
by duly.= _Sc. Pr._
=Naething is got without pains but an ill name.= 15
_Sc. Pr._
=Naething is got without pains except dirt and
long nails.= _Sc. Pr._
=Naething is ill said if it's no ill ta'en.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nager entre deux eaux=--To waver between two
parties. _Fr._
=Naiv muss jedes wahre Genie sein, oder es ist
keines=--Every true genius must be natural, or
it is none. _Schiller._
=Naked truth is out of place before the eyes of= 20
=the profane vulgar; it can only make its
appearance thickly veiled.= _Schopenhauer._
=Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as
body; and it addeth no small reverence to
men's manners and actions if they be not
altogether open.= _Bacon._
=Nam de mille fabæ modiis dum surripis unum, /
Damnum est, non facinus mihi pacto lenius
isto=--If from a thousand bushels of beans you
steal one, my loss, it is true, is in this case less,
but not your villany. _Hor._
=Nam dives qui fieri vult, / Et cito vult fieri=--He
who wishes to become rich wishes to become so
quickly too. _Juv._
=Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit
pudor=--I regard that man as lost who has lost
his sense of shame. _Plaut._
=Nam et majorum instituta tueri, sacris cerimoniisque= 25
=retinendis, sapientis est=--For it is
the part of a wise man to protect the institutions
of his forefathers by retaining the sacred rites
and ceremonies.
=Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis, /
Nec vixit male qui natus moriensque fefellit=--Joys
do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he
lived ill of whose birth and death no one took
note. _Hor._
=Nam nunc mores nihil faciunt quod licet, nisi
quod lubet=--Nowadays it is the fashion to make
nothing of what is proper, but only what is pleasant.
_Plaut._
=Nam pro jucundis aptissima quæque dabunt
Di. / Carior est illis homo quam sibi=--The
gods will give what is most suitable rather than
what is most pleasing; man is dearer to them
than he is to himself. _Juv._
=Nam quæ inscitia est adversum stimulum
calces=--It is the height of folly to kick against
the pricks (_lit._ the goad). _Ter._
=Nam quum magna malæ superest audacia= 30
=causæ, / Creditur a multis fiducia=--When
great impudence comes to the help of a bad
cause, it is taken by many for honest confidence.
_Juv._
=Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum /
Facti crimen habet=--He who secretly meditates
a crime has all the guilt of the deed. _Juv._
=Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus
ardet!=--Your property is in peril surely if your
neighbour's house is on fire! _Hor._
=Nam vitiis nemo sine nascitur; optimus ille est, /
Qui minimis urgetur=--No man is born without
faults; he is the best who is influenced by the
fewest. _Hor._
=Namen nennen dich nicht! Dich bilden Griffel
und Pinsel sterblicher Künstler nicht nach!=--Names
do not name thee! Graver and pencil
of mortal artist can give no idea of thee! _Ueltzen._
=Names alter, things never alter.= _Wm. Blake._ 35
=Nane are so weel but they hope to be better.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Napoleon affords us an example of the danger
of elevating one's self to the Absolute, and
sacrificing everything to the carrying out
of an idea.= _Goethe._
=Napoleon, for the sake of a great name, broke
in pieces almost half a world.= _Goethe._
=Narrative is linear, but Action, having breadth
and depth as well as length, is solid.= _Carlyle._
=Narratur et prisci Catonis / Sæpe mero caluisse= 40
=virtus=--It is said that the virtue even of the elder
Cato was often warmed by wine. _Hor._
=Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet=--We
are born but to die (_lit._ die in being born),
and our end hangs on to our beginning. _Manilius._
=Nascimur poetæ, fimus oratores=--We are born
poets, we become orators. _Cic._
=Natales grate numeras? ignoscis amicis? /
Lenior et melior fis accedente senecta?=--Do
you count your birthdays thankfully? forgive
your friends? grow gentler and better with advancing
age? _Hor._
=Natio comœda est=--The nation is composed of
actors. _Juv._
=National character varies as it fades under invasion= 45
=or corruption; but if ever it glows
again into a new life, that life must be tempered
by the earth and sky of the country
itself.= _Ruskin._ (?)
=National enthusiasm is the great nursery of
genius.= _Tuckermann._
=National suffering is, if thou wilt understand
the words, verily a judgment of God; it has
ever been preceded by national crime.= _Carlyle._
=Nations and empires flourish and decay, / By
turns command, and in their turn obey.=
_Dryden, after Ovid._
=Nations and men are only the best when they
are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when
they enjoy it.= _Jean Paul._
=Nations are only transitional forms of humanity;
they must undergo obliteration, as do the
transitional forms offered by the animal
series. There is no more an immortality for
them than there is an immobility for an embryo
or any one of the manifold forms passed
through in its progress of development.=
_Draper._
=Nations, like individuals, are born, proceed
through a predestined growth, and die. One
comes to its end at an early period and in an
untimely way; another, not until it has
gained maturity. One is cut off by feebleness
in its infancy, another is destroyed by
civil disease, another commits political suicide,
another lingers in old age. But for
every one there is an orderly way of progress
to its final term, whatever that term
may be.= _Draper._
=Natur und Kunst, sie scheinen sich zu fliehen, /
Und haben sich, eh' man es denkt, gefunden=--Nature
and art seem to shun each other, and
have met (_lit._ found each other) ere one is aware.
_Goethe._
=Natura beatis / Omnibus esse dedit, si quis
cognoverit uti=--Nature has granted to all to
be happy, if we but knew how to use her gifts.
_Claud._
=Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa=--Nature 5
fashioned him, and then broke the mould.
_Ariost._
=Natura ipsa valere, et mentis viribus excitari,
et quasi quodam divino spiritu afflari=--To be
strong by nature, to be urged on by the native
powers of the mind, and to be inspired by a
divine spirit, as it were. _Cic._
=Natura naturans=--Nature formative.
=Natura naturata=--Nature passive; nature formed.
=Natura nihil agit frustra=--Nature does nothing
in vain.
=Natura non facit saltus=--Nature makes no 10
leaps.
=Natura, quam te colimus inviti quoque=--O
Nature, how we bow to thee even against our
will. _Sen._
=Natural abilities are like natural plants, that
need pruning by study; and studies themselves
do give forth directions too much at
large, except they be bounded in by experience.=
_Bacon._
=Natural abilities can almost make up for the
want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation
for want of natural abilities.= _Schopenhauer._
=Natural knowledge is come at by the continuance
and progress of learning and of liberty,
and by particular persons attending to, comparing,
and pursuing intimations scattered
up and down it, which are overlooked and
disregarded by the generality of the world.=
_Bishop Butler._
=Natural objects always did and do weaken,= 15
=deaden, and obliterate imagination in me.=
_Wm. Blake._
=Natural selection is the principle by which each
slight variation, if useful, is preserved.= _Darwin._
=Naturalia non sunt turpia=--Natural things are
without shame.
=Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret=--Drive
Nature out with a pitchfork, she will
every time come rushing back. _Hor._
=Nature abhors a vacuum.= _Pr._
=Nature admits no lie.= _Carlyle._ 20
=Nature acts towards us like an Oriental potentate
with Mamelukes under him, whom he
employs for some mysterious purpose, but
to whom he never shows himself in person.=
_Renan._
=Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art
a mushroom.= _Carlyle._
=Nature alone is permanent.= _Longfellow._
=Nature alone knows what she means.= _Goethe._
=Nature always leaps to the surface, and manages= 25
=to show what she is.= _Boileau._
=Nature always speaks of spirit.= _Emerson._
=Nature always wears the colours of the spirit.
To a man labouring under calamity the
heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.=
_Emerson._
=Nature and art are too grand to go forth in
pursuit of aims; nor is it necessary that they
should, for there are relations everywhere,
and relations constitute life.= _Goethe._
=Nature and books belong to the eyes that see
them. It depends on the mood of the man
whether he shall see the sunset or the fine
poem.= _Emerson._
=Nature and Heaven command you, at your= 30
=peril, to discern worth from unworth in
everything, and most of all in man.= _Ruskin._
=Nature and love cannot be concealed.= _Ger.
Pr._
=Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; /
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was
light.= _Pope._
=Nature and truth, though never so low or
vulgar, are yet pleasing when openly and
artlessly represented.= _Pope._
=Nature builds upon a false bottom, seeks herself
what she values in others, and is oftentimes
deceived and disappointed. Grace reposes
her whole hope and love in God, and
is never mistaken, never deluded by false
expectations.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty= 35
=breaks in everywhere.= _Emerson._
=Nature cannot but always act rightly, quite
unconcerned as to what may be the consequences.=
_Goethe._
=Nature counts nothing that she meets with
base, / But lives and loves in every place.=
_Tennyson._
=Nature, crescent, does not grow alone / In thews
and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, / The
inward service of the mind and soul / Grows
wide withal.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Nature does more than supply materials; she
also supplies powers.= _J. S. Mill._
=Nature does not cocker us; we are children,= 40
=not pets; she is not fond; everything is
dealt to us without fear or favour, after
severe, universal laws.= _Emerson._
=Nature does not like to be observed, and likes
that we should be her fools and playmates.=
_Emerson._
=Nature does not make all great men, more
than all other men, in the self-same mould.=
_Carlyle._
=Nature draws with greater force than seven
oxen.= _Ger. Pr._
=Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.=
_Sen._
=Nature fashions no creature without implanting
in it the strength needful for its action
and duration.= _Carlyle._
=Nature forces on our heart a Creator; history,
a Providence.= _Jean Paul._
=Nature gives healthy children much; how
much! Wise education is a wise unfolding
of this; often it unfolds itself better of its
own accord.= _Goethe._
=Nature gives you the impression as if there
were nothing contradictory in the world;
and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place
of man, be it lofty or low, wide or
narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend
with, to battle with, to smooth and put to
rights.= _Goethe._
=Nature glories in death more than in life. The= 5
=month of departure is more beautiful than the
month of coming.... Every green thing
loves to die in bright colours.= _Ward Beecher._
=Nature goes her own way; and all that to us
seems an exception, is really according to
order.= _Goethe._
=Nature had made occupation a necessity;
society makes it a duty; habit may make it
a pleasure.= _Capelle._
=Nature has directly formed woman to be a
mother, only indirectly to be a wife; man,
on the contrary, is rather made to be a husband
than a father.= _Jean Paul._
=Nature has given to each one all that as a
man he needs, which it is the business of
education to develop, if, as most frequently
happens, it does not develop better of itself.=
_Goethe._
=Nature has lent us tears--the cry of suffering= 10
=when the man at last can bear it no longer.=
_Goethe._
=Nature has made man's breast no windows /
To publish what he does within doors, / Nor
what dark secrets there inhabit, / Unless his
own rash folly blab it.= _Butler._
=Nature has made provision for all her children;
the meanest is not hindered in its existence
even by that of the most excellent.= _Goethe._
=Nature has no feeling; the sun gives his light
to good and bad alike, and moon and stars
shine out for the worst of men as for the
best.= _Goethe._
=Nature has no moods; they belong to man
alone.= _Auerbach._
=Nature has planted passions in the heart of= 15
=man for the wisest purposes both of religion
and life.= _Fox._
=Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a
coxcomb is always of man's own making.=
_Addison._
=Nature hath framed strange fellows in her
time. / Some that will evermore peep through
their eyes / And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper; /
And other of such vinegar aspect /
That they'll not show their teeth in way of
smile, / Though Nestor swear the jest be
laughable.= _Mer. of Venice_, i. 1.
=Nature hath made nothing so base but can /
Read some instruction to the wisest man.=
_Aleyn._
=Nature here shows art, / That through thy
bosom makes me see thy heart.= _Mid. N.
Dream_, ii. 8.
=Nature holds an immense uncollected debt= 20
=over every man's head.= _Ward Beecher._
=Nature in women is so nearly allied to art.=
_Goethe._
=Nature in you stands on the very verge / Of
her confine.= _King Lear_, ii. 4.
=Nature is a friend to truth.= _Young._
=Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives
without measure.= _Emerson._
=Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always= 25
=and never the same.= _Emerson._
=Nature is a Sibyl, who testifies beforehand to
what has been determined from all eternity,
and was not to be realised till late in time.=
_Goethe._
=Nature is a vast trope, and all particular
natures are tropes.= _Emerson._
=Nature is always kind enough to give even her
clouds a humorous lining.= _Lowell._
=Nature is always lavish, even prodigal.= _Goethe._
=Nature is always like herself.= _Linnæus._ 30
=Nature is always mysterious.= _Ward._
=Nature is always right, and most profoundly
so= (_am gründlichsten_) =just there where we
least comprehend her.= _Goethe._
=Nature is an Æolian harp, a musical instrument
whose tones are the re-echo of higher
strings within us.= _Novalis._
=Nature is avariciously frugal; in matter it
allows no atom to elude her grasp; in mind
no thought or feeling to perish. It gathers
up the fragments that nothing be lost.= _Dr.
Thomas._
=Nature is beyond all teaching.= _Pr._ 35
=Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause
is God.= _Cowper._
=Nature is commanded by obeying her.= _Bacon._
=Nature is content with little, grace with less,
but lust with nothing.= _Matthew Henry._
=Nature is despotic, and will not be fooled or
abated of any jot of her authority by the
pertest of her sons.= _Emerson._
=Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old= 40
=head on young shoulders, and then a young
heart beating under fourscore winters.=
_Emerson._
=Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the
lawgiver is before the law-receiver.= _Emerson._
=Nature is good, but she is not the best.= _Carlyle._
=Nature is indeed adequate to Fear, but to Reverence
not adequate.= _Goethe._
=Nature is just towards men. It recompenses
them for their sufferings; it renders them
laborious, because to the greatest toils it attaches
the greatest rewards.= _Montesquieu._
=Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest= 45
=way to her ends.= _Emerson._
=Nature is not an Aggregate but a Whole.=
_Carlyle._
=Nature is not fixed, but fluid; spirit alters,
moulds, makes it.= _Emerson._
=Nature is rich; those two eggs you ate to
breakfast this morning might, if hatched,
have peopled the world with poultry.= _Carlyle._
=Nature is sometimes subdued, but seldom extinguished.=
_Bacon._
=Nature is still the grand agent in making= 50
=poets.= _Carlyle._
=Nature is the art of God.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Nature is the best posture-master.= _Emerson._
=Nature is the immense shadow of man.= _Emerson._
=Nature is the living, visible garment of God.=
_Goethe._
=Nature is the only book that teems with meaning
on every page.= _Goethe._
=Nature knows how to convert evil to good;
Nature utilises misers, fanatics, showmen,
egotists to accomplish her ends; but we
must not think better of the foible for that.=
_Emerson._
=Nature knows no equality; her sovereign= 5
=law is subordination and dependence.= _Vauvenargues._
=Nature knows no pause in progress and development,
and attaches her curse on all
inaction.= _Goethe._
=Nature listening stood whilst Shakespeare
play'd, / And wonder'd at the work herself
had made.= _Churchill._
=Nature made every fop to plague his brother, /
Just as one beauty mortifies another.= _Pope._
=Nature makes us vagabonds, the world makes
us respectable.= _Alexander Smith._
=Nature meant to make woman her masterpiece,= 10
=but committed a mistake in the choice
of the clay; she took it too fine.= _Lessing._
=Nature must obey necessity.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=Nature, mysterious even under the light of
day, is not to be robbed of her veil; and
what she does not choose to reveal you will
not extort from her with levers and screws.=
_Goethe._
=Nature needs little, fancy= (_Wahn_) =much.= _Gr.
Pr._
=Nature never did betray / The heart that loved
her.= _Wordsworth._
=Nature never hurries; atom by atom, little= 15
=by little, she achieves her work.= _Emerson._
=Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage
and bad habits have deformed a fair
and lovely creation.= _Sterne._
=Nature never sends a great man into the
planet without confiding the secret to
another soul.= _Emerson._
=Nature owns no man who is not a martyr
withal.= _Carlyle._
=Nature passes nurture.= _Pr._
=Nature respects race and not hybrids.= _Knox._ 20
=Nature sent women into the world that they
might be mothers and love children, to whom
sacrifices must ever be offered, and from
whom none can be obtained.= _Jean Paul._
=Nature smiles as sweet, I ween, / To shepherds
as to kings.= _Burns._
=Nature stretches out her arms to embrace
man; only let his thoughts be of equal
greatness.= _Emerson._
=Nature, study, and practice must combine to
ensure proficiency in any art.= _Arist._
=Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom= 25
=which cannot help itself.= _Emerson._
=Nature takes as much pains in the forming of
a beggar as an emperor.= _Pr._
=Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.=
_Cor._
=Nature transcends all our moods of thought,
and its secret we do not yet find.= _Emerson._
=Nature trips us up when we strut.= _Emerson._
=Nature understands no jesting; she is always= 30
=true, always serious, always severe; she is
always right, and the errors and faults are
always those of man. Him who is incapable
of appreciating her she despises, and only
to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she
resign herself and reveal her secrets.= _Goethe._
="Nature veils God," but what I see of Him in
nature is not veiled.= _Goethe._
=Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and
reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the
foolish.= _Carlyle._
=Nature will not be Buddhist; she resents
generalising, and insults the philosopher in
every moment with a million of fresh particulars.=
_Emerson._
=Nature without discipline is of small force, and
discipline without nature more feeble.= _John
Lily._
=Nature without learning is like a blind man;= 35
=learning without Nature, like a maimed one;
practice without both, incomplete.= _Plutarch._
=Nature works after such eternal, necessary,
divine laws, that the Deity himself could
alter nothing in them.= _Goethe, after Spinoza._
=Nature works on the method of all for each
and each for all.= _Emerson._
=Nature works very hard, and only hits the
white once in a million throws. In mankind,
she is contented if she yields one master in a
century.= _Emerson._
=Nature's above art.= _Lear_, iv. 6.
=Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.= 40
_Duke of Buckingham._
=Nature's shadows are ever varying.= _Wm.
Blake._
=Nature's tears are Reason's merriment.= _Rom.
and Jul._, iv. 5.
=Natures that have much heat, and great
and violent desires and perturbations, are
not ripe for action till they have passed the
meridian of their years.= _Bacon._
=Natürlicher Verstand kann fast jeden Grad
von Bildung ersetzen, aber keine Bildung
den natürlichen Verstand=--Natural intelligence
may make up almost every step in culture,
but no culture make up for natural intelligence.
_Schopenhauer._
=Natus nemo=--Not a born soul. _Plaut._ 45
=Natus sum; esuriebam, quærebam; nunc repletas
requiesco=--I was born; I felt hungry,
and sought for food; now that I am satiated,
I lay me down to rest.
=Naufragium in portu facere=--To make shipwreck
in port. _Quinct._
=Nay! evermore, / All things and thoughts,
both new and old, are writ / Upon the unchanging
human heart and soul.= _Lewis
Morris._
=Nay, let us seek at home to find / Fit harvest
for the brooding mind, / And find, since thus
the world grows fair, / Duty and pleasure
everywhere.= _Lewis Morris._
=Nay, that's past praying for.= 1 _Henry IV._, 50
ii. 4.
=Nay, then, farewell! / I have touch'd the
highest point of all my greatness, / And,
from that full meridian of my glory, / I haste
now to my setting: I shall fall / Like a
bright exhalation in the evening, / And no
man see me more.= _Wolsey, in Hen. VIII._,
iii. 2.
=Ne Æsopum quidem trivit=--He is a backward
pupil (_lit._ he has not yet thumbed Æsop).
=Ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito=--Yield
not to misfortunes, but rather go more boldly to
meet them. _Virg._
=Ne depugnes in alieno negotio=--Do not take up
the cudgels in another man's affairs. _Pr._
=Ne exeat regno=--Let him not go out of the kingdom.
(A writ to prevent a person leaving the
country). _L._
=Ne faut-il que délibérer? / La cour en conseillers= 5
=foisonne: / Est-il besoin d'exécuter? /
L'on ne rencontre personne=--Is a matter to
be discussed? the council chamber is full of advisers.
Is there something to be done? the chamber
is empty. _La Font._
=Ne forçons point notre talent; / Nous ne ferions
rien avec grâce=--Let us not force our faculty;
we shall in that case do nothing to good effect.
_La Font._
=Ne fronti crede=--Trust not to appearances.
=Ne Hercules quidem contra duos=--Not even
Hercules could contend against two at once.
=Ne Jupiter quidem omnibus placet=--Not even
Jupiter can please everybody. _Pr._
=Ne nimium=--Not too much. _M._ 10
=Ne obliviscaris=--Do not forget. _M._
=Ne plus ultra=--What cannot be surpassed; perfection
(_lit._ no more beyond).
=Né pour la digestion=--Born merely to consume
good things. _La Bruyère._
=Ne quid detrimenti respublica capiat=--See that
the commonwealth suffer no detriment.
=Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non= 15
=audeat=--Let him not dare to say anything that is
false, nor let him dare to say what is not true.
_Cic._
=Ne quid nimis=--Let there be no excess. _M._
=Ne sutor supra crepidam=--Let the cobbler stick
to his last. _Pliny._
=Ne te longis ambagibus ultra / Quam satis est
morer=--To make a long story short (_lit._ not to
detain you by long digressions more than enough).
_Hor._
=Ne te quæsiveris extra=--Seek not thyself outside
of thyself.
=Ne tempora perde precando=--Lose not the time 20
that offers itself by praying. _Ovid._
=Ne tentes, aut perfice=--Either attempt not, or go
through with it. _M._
=Ne vile fano=--Bring nothing base to the temple.
_M._
=Ne vile velis=--Incline to nothing vile. _M._
=Near and far do not belong to the eternal world,
which is not of space and time.= _Carlyle._
=Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.= 25
_Pr._
=Nearer the kirk the farther frae grace.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the
world are unbelievers; the best of them in
doubt and misery; the plurality in plodding
hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what
practical work lies ready to their hands.=
_Ruskin._
=Neat, not gaudy.= _Charles Lamb._
=Nec aspera terrent=--Not even hardships deter
us. _M._
=Nec caput nec pedes=--In confusion; neither 30
head nor tail. _Pr._
=Nec cui de te plusquam tibi credas=--Do not believe
any man more than yourself about yourself.
_Pr._
=Nec cupias, nec metuas=--Neither desire nor fear.
_M._
=Nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus=--Never
let a god interfere unless a difficulty arise
worthy of a god's interposition. _Hor._
=Nec domo dominus, sed domino domus honestanda
est=--The master should not be graced
by the mansion, but the mansion by the master.
_Cic._
=Nec est ad astra mollis e terris via=--The 35
way from the earth to the stars is no soft one.
_Sen._
=Nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo=--I neither have,
nor want, nor care. _M._
=Nec lusisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum=--There
is no shame in having led a wild life, but
in not breaking it off. _Hor._
=Nec male notus eques=--A knight of good repute.
_M._
=Nec meus audet / Rem tentare pudor, quam
vires ferre recusent=--My modesty does not
permit me to essay a thing which my powers
are not equal to accomplish. _Virg._
=Nec minor est virtus, quam quærere, parta= 40
=tueri: / Casus inest illic; hic erit artis opus=--It
is no less merit to keep what you have got
than to gain it. In the one there is chance; the
other will be a work of art. _Ovid._
=Nec mora, nec requies=--Neither delay nor cessation.
_Virg._
=Nec morti esse locum=--There is no room for
death._ Ovid._
=Nec obolum habet unde restim emat=--He
hasn't a penny left to buy a halter. _Pr._
=Nec omnia, nec semper, nec ab omnibus=--Neither
all, nor always, nor by all.
=Nec placida contentus quiete est=--Nor is he 45
contented with quiet repose. _M._
=Nec pluribus impar=--Not an unequal match for
numbers. _M._
=Nec prece nec pretio=--Neither by entreaty nor by
a bribe. _M._
=Nec, quæ præteriit, iterum revocabitur unda; /
Nec, quæ præteriit, hora redire potest=--Neither
can the wave which has passed by be
again recalled, nor can the hour which has
passed ever return. _Ovid._
=Nec quærere nec spernere honorem=--Neither
to seek nor to despise honours. _M._
=Nec regi nec populo, sed utrique=--Neither for 50
king nor for people, but for both. _M._
=Nec scire fas est omnia=--It is not permitted us
to know all things. _Hor._
=Nec si non obstatur propterea etiam permittitur=--That
an act is not prohibited, it does not
follow that it is permitted. _Cic._
=Nec sibi, sed toti genitum se credere mundo=--To
think that he was born not for himself alone,
but for the whole world. _Lucan._
=Nec soli cedit=--He yields not even to the sun. _M._
=Nec temere nec timide=--Neither rashly nor 55
timidly. _M._
=Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit /
Occurrat=--And let it not concern you what you
may do, but what you ought to do. _Claud._
=Nec timeo, nec sperno=--I neither fear nor despise.
_M._
=Nec Veneris pharetris macer est, aut lampade
fervet: / Inde faces ardent, veniunt a dote
sagittæ=--He is not made thin by Venus' quiver,
nor does he burn with her torch; it is from this
that his fires are fed, from her dowry the arrows
come. _Juv._
=Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus / Interpres=--Nor,
as a faithful translator, should
you be careful to render the original word for
word. _Hor._
=Nec vidisse semel satis est, juvat usque
morari, / Et conferre gradum, et veniendi
discere causas=--Nor is it enough to have once
seen him; they are delighted to linger near him,
and to keep step with him, and to learn the
reason of his coming. _Virg._
=Nec vultu destrue dicta tuo=--Do not discredit
your words by your looks. _Ovid._
=Necessary patience in seeking the Lord is= 5
=better than he that leadeth his life without
a guide.= _Ecclus._
=Necesse est cum insanientibus furere, nisi solus
relinqueris=--You must be mad with the insane
unless you wish to be left quite alone. _Petronius._
=Necesse est ut multos timeat, quem multi
timent=--He whom many fear must necessarily
fear many. _Syr._
=Necessità 'l c' induce, e non diletto=--Necessity,
not pleasure, brings him here. _Dante._
=Necessitas non habet legem=--Necessity has no
law.
=Necessity does everything well.= _Emerson._ 10
=Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward
strength. Every fool may live according
to his own likings.= _Goethe._
=Necessity is the mistress of the arts.= _Pr._
=Necessity is the mother of invention.= _Pr._
=Necessity is the plea for every infringement
of human freedom. It is the argument of
tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.= _William
Pitt._
=Necessity makes even cowards brave.= _Pr._ 15
=Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the
rich.= _Tac._
=Necessity unites hearts.= _Ger. Pr._
=Necessity urges desperate measures.= _Cervantes._
=Necio es quien piensa que otros no piensan=--He
is a fool who thinks that others don't think.
_Sp. Pr._
=Need mak's an auld wife trot.= _Sc. Pr._ 20
=Needles and pins, needles and pins! / When a
man marries his trouble begins.= _Pr._
=Needs must when the devil drives.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ne'er grudge and carp, / Though fortune use
you hard and sharp.= _Burns._
=Ne'er let your gear owergang ye=, _i.e._, never let
your wealth get the better of you. _Sc. Pr._
=Ne'er linger, ne'er o'erhasty be, / For time= 25
=moves on with measured foot.= _Goethe._
=Ne'er put a sword in a wud man's= (a madman's)
=hand.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ne'er tak' a wife till ye ken what to do wi'
her.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ne'er the rose without the thorn.= _Herrick._
=Ne'er trust muckle to an auld enemy or a
new freend.= _Sc. Pr._
=Neglecta solent incendia sumere vires=--A fire, 30
if neglected, always gathers in strength. _Hor._
=Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes
through all her best resolves.= _Feltham._
=Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non
solum arrogantis est, sed omnino dissoluti=--To
be careless of what others think of us,
not only indicates an arrogant, but an utterly
abandoned character. _Cic._
=Nehmt die Gottheit auf in euren Willen, / Und
sie steigt von ihrem Weltenthron=--Take the
divine up into your will, and she descends from
her world-throne. _Schiller._
=Nehmt die Stimmung wahr, / Denn sie kommt
so selten=--Take advantage of the right mood,
for it comes so seldom. _Goethe._
=Neid zu fühlen, ist menschlich; Schadenfreude= 35
=zu geniessen, teuflisch=--To feel envy is human;
to joy in mischief is devilish. _Schopenhauer._
=Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For
loan oft loses both itself and friend.= _Ham._,
i. 3.
=Neither borrow money of a neighbour nor a
friend, but of a stranger, where, paying for
it, thou shalt hear no more of it.= _Lord
Burleigh._
=Neither crow nor croak.= _Pr._
=Neither exalt your pleasures, nor aggravate
your vexations, beyond their real and natural
state.= _Johnson._
=Neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder / Shall= 40
=wholly do away, I ween, / The marks of that
which once hath been.= _Coleridge._
=Neither hew down the whole forest, nor come
home without wood.= _Serv. Pr._
=Neither lead nor drive.= _Pr._
=Neither our virtues nor vices are all our own.=
_Johnson._
=Neither painting nor fighting feed men; nor can
capital, in the form of money or machinery,
feed them.= _Ruskin._
=Neither praise nor blame is the object of true= 45
=criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to
establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly
to award--these are the true aims and duties
of criticism.= _Simms._
=Neither rhyme nor reason.= _Shakespeare._
=Neither seek nor shun the fight.= _Gael. Pr._
=Neither sign a paper without reading it, nor
drink water without seeing it.= _Sp. Pr._
=Neither wise men nor fools / Can work without
tools.= _Pr._
=Neither woman nor man, nor any kind of creature= 50
=in the universe, was born for the exclusive,
or even the chief, purpose of falling in
love or being fallen in love with.... Except
the zoophytes and coral insects of the Pacific
Ocean, I am acquainted with no creature with
whom it is the one or grand object.= _Carlyle._
=Neither women nor linen by candlelight.=
_Pr._
[Greek: Nekros ou daknei]--A dead man doesn't bite.
_Plutarch._
=Nem. con.=, abbrev. for =Nemine contradicente=--Nobody
opposing.
=Nem. diss.=, abbrev. for =Nemine dissentiente=--Same
as above.
=Nemesis checks, with cubit-rule and bridle, /= 55
=Immoderate deeds, and boastings rash and
idle.= _ Anon._
=Nemesis is lame, but she is of colossal stature,
like the gods.= _George Eliot._
=Nemo allegans suam turpitudinem audiendus
est=--No one testifying to his own baseness ought
to be heard. _L._
=Nemo dat quod non habet=--Nobody can give
what he does not legally possess. _L._
=Nemo debet bis puniri pro uno delicto=--No man
shall be twice punished for the same offence. _L._
=Nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa=--No
one shall be molested twice for one and the
same cause. _L._
=Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa=--No 5
one ought to be judge in his own cause. _L._
=Nemo doctus mutationem consilii inconstantiam
dixit esse=--No sensible man ever charged
one with inconstancy who had merely changed
his opinion. _Cic._
=Nemo est tam senex qui se annum non putat
posse vivere=--There is no man so old as not to
think he may live a year longer. _Cic._
=Nemo ex proprio dolo consequitur actionem=--No
man can sue at law upon his own fraud. _L._
=Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam nunquam
moriendi=--No man can ever obtain from the Pope
a dispensation from death. _Thomas à Kempis._
=Nemo ita pauper vivit, quam pauper natus est=--No 10
one is so poor in life as he was when he
was at birth.
=Nemo læditur nisi a seipso=--No man is harmed
but by himself. _Pr._
=Nemo malus felix, minime corruptor=--No bad
man is happy, least of all a seducer. _Juv._
=Nemo mathematicus genium indemnatus habebit=--No
astronomer will be held a genius until
he is condemned. _Juv._
=Nemo me impune lacessit=--No one provokes me
with impunity. _M. of Scotland._
=Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit=--No man 15
is wise at all moments.
=Nemo patriam in qua natus est exuere nec
ligeantiæ debitum ejurare possit=--No one
can cast off his native country or abjure his
allegiance to his sovereign. _L._
=Nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius
injuriam=--No one can change what he proposes
to enact to the damage of another. _L._
=Nemo potest nudo vestimenta detrahere=--You
cannot strip a garment off a naked man. _Pr._
=Nemo potest personam diu ferre fictam=--No
one can play a feigned part long. _Sen._
=Nemo præsumitur alienam posteritatem suæ= 20
=prætulisse=--No one is presumed to have preferred
another's offspring to his own. _L._
=Nemo punitur pro alieno delicto=--No one must
be punished for the fault of another. _L._
=Nemo quam bene vivat, sed quamdiu, curat:
quum omnibus possit contingere ut bene
vivat, ut diu nulli=--No one concerns himself
with how well he should live, only how long:
while none can count upon living long, all have
the chance of living well. _Sen._
=Nemo repente fuit turpissimus=--No man ever
became extremely wicked all at once. _Juv._
=Nemo sibi nascitur=--No one is born for himself.
_Pr._
=Nemo solus sapit=--No man is wise by himself. 25
_Plaut._
=Nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare=--No one is
held bound to criminate himself. _L._
=Nemo vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu divino
unquam fuit=--There never was a great man
who had not some divine inspiration. _Cic._
[Greek: Nêpioi, oud' isasin hosô pleon hêmisy pantos]--Fools,
they don't even know how much half is
more than the whole. _Hesiod, from Pittacus._
=Nequaquam satis in re una consumere curam=--It
is by no means enough to spend all our
care on a single object. _Hor._
=Neque culpa neque lauda teipsum=--Neither 30
blame nor praise yourself.
=Neque fœmina, amissa pudicitia, alia abnuerit=--When
a woman has once lost her chastity, she
will shrink from nothing. _Tac._
=Neque mala vel bona quæ vulgus putet=--Things
are not to be judged either good or bad
merely because the public think so. _Tac._
=Neque opinione sed natura constitutum est
jus=--Not in opinion, but in nature is law founded.
_Cic._
=Neque quies gentium sine armis neque arma
sine stipendiis neque stipendia sine tributis
haberi queunt=--The quiet of nations cannot
be maintained without arms, nor can arms be
maintained without pay, nor pay without taxation.
_Tac._
=Neque semper arcum / Tendit Apollo=--Apollo
does not always keep his bow bent. _Hor._
=Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit=--He is
wise to no purpose who is not wise for himself.
_Pr._
=Nervus rerum=--The sinews of things.
=Nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futuræ, /
Et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis=--Man
knows not the lot appointed him, and
he cannot keep within bounds when elated by
prosperity. _Virg._
=Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos /
Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui=--I
know not by what sweet charm our native soil
attracts us to it, and does not suffer us ever to
forget it. _Ovid._
=Nescio qua præter solitum dulcedine læti=--Elated 40
beyond usual by some unaccountable
delight. _Virg._
=Nescire autem quid antea quam natus sis
acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid
enim est ætas hominis, nisi memoria rerum
veterum cum superioribus contexitur?=--To
be unacquainted with events which took place
before you were born, is to be always a child;
for where is human life if the memory fails to
connect past events with others before? _Cic._
=Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad
judicem=--You little know what a frightful thing
it is to go to law. _Plaut._
=Nescit vox missa reverti=--A word once uttered
can never be recalled. _Hor._
=Nessun maggior dolore / Che ricordarsi del
tempo felice / Nella miseria=--There is no
greater woe than the recollection in the midst of
misery of happy days bygone. _Dante._
=Nessuno nasce maestro=--No one is born a 45
master. _It. Pr._
=Neu Regiment bringt neue Menschen auf, /
Und früheres Verdienst veraltet schnell=--A
new administration of affairs raises up new
men, and qualifications formerly of service become
soon antiquated. _Schiller._
=Neutral men are the devil's allies.= _Chapin._
=Never a tear bedims the eye / That time and
patience will not dry; / Never a lip is curved
in pain / That can't be kissed into smiles
again.= _Bret Harte._
=Never anger / Made good guard for itself.=
_Ant. and Cleo._, iv. 1.
=Never anything can be amiss / When simpleness
and duty tender it.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_,
v. 1.
=Never ask a favour of a man until he has had
his dinner.= _Punch._
=Never be afraid to doubt, if only you have the
disposition to believe.= _Leighton._
=Never bray at an ass.= _Pr._ 5
=Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's
candle.= _Pr._
=Never buy a pig in a poke.= _Pr._
=Never by reflection, only by doing what it lies
on him to do, is self-knowledge possible to
any man.= _Goethe._
=Never cackle till your egg is laid.= _Pr._
=Never confuse a myth with a lie.... The= 10
=thoughts of all the greatest and wisest men
hitherto have been expressed through mythology.=
_Ruskin._
=Never deal in mistakes; they aye bring mischances.=
_Scott._
=Never deceive a friend.= _Hipparchus._
=Never desire to appear clever and make a
show of your talents before men. Be honest,
loving, kindly, and sympathetic in all you
say and do. Cleverness will flow from you
naturally if you have it, and applause will
come to you unsought from those who know
what to applaud; but the applause of fools
is to be shunned.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._
=Never despise the day of small things.= _Pr._
=Never disregard what your enemies say.= _B._ 15
_R. Haydon._
=Never do anything of the rectitude of which
you have a doubt.= _Pliny._
=Never do that by proxy which you can do
yourself.= _It. Pr._
=Never do things by halves.= _Pr._
=Never durst poet touch a pen to write / Until
his ink were temper'd with love's sighs; /
O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, /
And plant in tyrants mild humility.= _Love's
L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Never elated when one man's oppress'd; /= 20
=Never dejected while anothers bless'd.=
_Pope._
=Never fall out with your bread and butter.= _Pr._
=Never find fault with the absent.= _Pr._
=Never fish in troubled waters.= _Pr._
=Never forget St. Paul's sentence, "Love is
the fulfilling of the law." This is the steam
of the social machine; but the steam requires
regulation; it is regulated by intelligence
and moderation.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._
=Never fry a fish till it's caught.= _Pr._ 25
=Never give up the ship.= _Pr._
=Never grudge a penny for a pennyworth.= _Pr._
=Never grumble nor mumble.= _Pr._
=Never hang a man twice for one offence.= _Pr._
=Never have an idle hour, or an idle pound.= _Pr._ 30
=Never hold a candle to the devil.= _Pr._
=Never indulge the notion that you have any
absolute right to choose the sphere or the
circumstances in which you are to put forth
your powers of social action.= _Prof. Blackie
to young men._
=Never is a lang term.= _Sc. Pr._
=Never is a long day.= _Pr._
=Never king dropped out of the clouds.= _Power._ 35
=Never lean on a broken staff.= _Pr._
=Never leave a certainty for an uncertainty.=
_Pr._
=Never leave that till to-morrow which you can
do to-day.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Never let any one see the bottom of your purse
or your mind.= _It. Pr._
=Never let Fortune be thy mistress, nor Misfortune= 40
=thy maid.= _Bodenstedt._
=Never let us be discouraged with ourselves.
It is not when we are conscious of our faults
that we are the most wicked; on the contrary,
we are less so.= _Fénelon._
=Never let your zeal outrun your charity; the
former is but human, the latter is divine.=
_Ballou._
=Never look a gift-horse in the mouth.= _Pr._
=Never look for a knot in a bulrush.= _Pr._
=Never look for birds of this year in the nests= 45
=of the last.= _Cervantes._
=Never make a jest of any Scripture expressions.=
_Judge Hale._
=Never meet trouble half way.= _Pr._
=Never mind the future: be what you ought to
be; the rest is God's affair.= _Amiel._
=Never mind who was your grandfather. What
are you?= _Pr._
=Never morning wore / To evening, but some= 50
=heart did break.= _Tennyson._
=Never neglect small matters and expenses.=
_It. Pr._
=Never offer to teach fish to swim.= _Pr._
=Never preach beyond your experience.= _Pr._
=Never put your arm out farther than you can
draw it back again.= _Scott._
=Never put your hand into a wasp's nest.= _Pr._ 55
=Never read borrowed books. To be without
books of your own is the abyss of penury.
Don't endure it. And when you have to
buy them, you'll think whether they're worth
reading; which you had better, on all accounts.=
_Ruskin to a young boy._
=Never repeat old grievances.= _Pr._
=Never risk a joke, even the least offensive in
its nature and the most common, with a person
who is not well-bred, and possessed of
sense to comprehend it.= _La Bruyère._
=Never say die! / Up, man, and try!= _Pr._
=Never say of another what you would not have= 60
=him hear.= _Pr._
=Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never
told can be, / For the gentle wind doth move /
Silently, invisibly.= _Wm. Blake._
=Never shirk the hardest work.= _Pr._
=Never sigh, but send.= _Pr._
=Never since Aaron's rod went out of practice,
or even before it, was there such a wonder-working
tool as a pen; greater than all
recorded miracles have been performed by
pens.= _Carlyle._
=Never speak ill of those whose bread you eat.= 65
_Pr._
=Never speak of love with scorn; / Such were
direst treason; / Love was made for eve
and morn, / And for every season.= _C.
Kent._
=Never spur a willing horse.= _Pr._
=Never stint soap and water.= _Pr._
=Never swap horses while crossing a stream.=
_Pr._
=Never talk half a minute without pausing and
giving others an opportunity to strike in.=
_Sydney Smith._
=Never tell in the parlour what you heard in the
kitchen.= _Pr._
=Never tell your resolution before-hand.= _Wisdom._ 5
=Never that I could in searching find out, has
man been, by time which devours much, deprived
of any faculty whatsoever that he in
any era was possessed of.= _Carlyle._
=Never throw a hen's egg at a sparrow.= _Pr._
=Never till now did young men, and almost
children, take such a command in human
affairs.= _Carlyle._
=Never title yet so mean could prove, / But
there was eke a mind which did that title
love.= _Shenstone._
=Never too old to turn; never too late to learn.= 10
_Pr._
=Never trouble yourself with trouble till trouble
troubles you.= _Pr._
=Never trust a wolf with the care of lambs.=
_Pr._
=Never try to prove what nobody doubts.= _Pr._
=Never venture all in one bottom.= _Pr._
=Never was scraper= (miser) =brave man.= _Herbert._ 15
=Never waste pains on bad ground; let it remain
rough. Though properly looked after
and cared for, it will be of best service so.=
_Ruskin._
=Never write anything that does not give you
great pleasure; emotion is easily propagated
from the writer to the reader.= _Joubert._
=Never write on a subject without having first
read yourself full on it; and never read on a
subject till you have thought yourself hungry
on it.= _Richter._
=Never write what you dare not sign.= _Pr._
=Never yet created eye / Could see across eternity.= 20
_Keble._
=Never yet has it been our fortune to fall in with
any man of genius whose conclusions did not
correspond better with his premises, and not
worse, than those of other men; whose genius,
once understood, did not manifest itself in a
deeper, fuller, truer view of all things human
and divine, than the clearest of your so-called
laudable "practical men" had claim to.= _Carlyle._
=Never yet, since the proud selfish race / Of
men began to jar, did passion give, / Nor
can it ever give, a right decision.= _Thomson._
=Never yet / Was noble man but made ignoble
talk.= _Tennyson._
=New acquests are more burden than strength.=
_Bacon._
=New brooms sweep clean.= _Pr._ 25
=New, daring, and inspiring ideas are engendered
only in a clear head over a glowing
heart, as the richest wines grow over the
volcanoes.= _F. Jacobs._
=New laws, new frauds.= _Pr._
=New lords, new laws.= _Pr._
=New-made honour doth forget men's names; /
'Tis too respective and too sociable, / For
your conversion.= _King John_, i. 1.
=New presbyter is but old priest writ large.= 30
_Milton._
=New religion! We already, in our dim heads,
know truths (of religion) by the thousand;
and, yet in our dead hearts, we will not perform
them by the ten, by the unit.= _Carlyle._
=New scenes impress new ideas, enrich the
imagination, and enlarge the power of
reason.= _Johnson._
=Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one
ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.=
_Charles Lamb._
=Next in importance to the matter of books are
their titles.= _Davies._
="Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as= 35
=a battle that has been won."= _Wellington,
after Waterloo._
=Next to Christmas Day the most pleasant
annual epoch in existence is the advent of
the New Year.= _Dickens._
=Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.=
_Thackeray._
=Next to nae wife, a gude wife is the best.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Next to religion, let your care be to promote
justice.= _Bacon._
=Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility= 40
=of relinquishing it.= _Disraeli._
=Next to the consciousness of doing a good
action, that of doing a civil one is the most
pleasing.= _Chesterfield._
=Next to the gods, of all man's possessions his
soul is the mightiest, being the most his
own.= _Plato._
=Next to the originator of a good sentence is
the first quoter of it.= _Emerson._
=Next to the satisfaction I receive in the prosperity
of an honest man, I am best pleased
with the confusion of a rascal.= (?)
=Next to theology I give to music the highest= 45
=place and honour; and we see how David
and all the saints have wrought their godly
thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.=
_Luther._
=Ni l'or ni la grandeur ne nous rendent heureux=--Neither
wealth nor greatness render us happy.
_La Font._
=Ni l'un ni l'autre=--Neither the one nor the other.
_Fr._
=Ni trop haut, ni trop bas; c'est le souverain
style=--Neither too high nor too low, that is the
sovereign rule.
=Nice distinctions are out of the question upon
occasions like those of speech, which return
every hour.= _Paley, upon lying._
=Nicht alle sind Diebe, die der Hund anbellt=--All 50
are not thieves whom the dog barks at.
_Ger. Pr._
=Nicht alles Wünschenswerte ist erreichbar;
nicht alles Erkennenswerte ist erkennbar=--Not
everything that is desirable is attainable,
and not everything that is worth knowing is
knowable. _Goethe._
=Nicht an die Güter hänge dein Herz, / Die das
Leben vergänglich zieren! / Wer besitzt,
der lerne verlieren; / Wer im Glück ist, der
lerne den Schmerz!=--Let not thy heart cling to
the things which for so short a time deck out thy
life. Let him who has, learn to lose, and him who
is happy, familiarise himself with what may give
pain. _Schiller._
=Nicht der Besitz, nur das Enthüllen, / Das leise
Finden nur ist süss=--Not the possession, only
the unveiling and quietly finding out is sweet.
_Tiedge._
=Nicht der ist auf der Welt verwaist, / Dessen
Vater und Mutter gestorben, / Sondern der
für Herz und Geist / Keine Lieb' und kein
Wissen erworben=--Not he whose father and
mother are dead is orphaned in the world, but he
who has won for heart and mind no love and no
knowledge. _Rückert._
=Nicht die Kinder bloss speist man / Mit Märchen
ab=--It is not children merely that are put
off with stories. _Lessing._
=Nicht draussen im Strudel verrauschender
Lust / Erwarte, das Glück dir zu finden: /
Die Seligkeit wohnt in der eigenen Brust, /
Hier musst du sie ewig begründen!=--Think
not to find thy happiness out there in the whirl
of riotous pleasure. Thy blessedness dwells in
thy own breast; here must thou for ever establish
it. _Heine._
=Nicht grösseren Vortheil wüsst' ich zu nennen /= 5
=Als des Feindes Verdienst erkennen=--I know
not a greater advantage than a due appreciation
of the worth of an enemy. _Goethe._
=Nicht immer am besten erfahren ist, / Wer
am ältesten an Jahren ist, / Und wer am
meisten gelitten hat, / Nicht immer die besten
Sitten hat!=--He who is oldest in years is
not always the best experienced, and he who has
suffered most has not always the best morals.
_Bodenstedt._
=Nicht immer macht das Kleid den Mann=--Clothes
do not always make the man. _Zachariæ._
=Nicht in die ferne Zeit verliere dich! / Den
Augenblick ergreife, der ist dein=--Lose not
thyself in a far-off time. Seize thou the moment
that is thine. _Schiller._
=Nicht in kalten Marmorsteinen, / Nicht in
Tempeln dumpf und tot, / In den frischen
Eichenhainen / Webt und rauscht der deutsche
Gott=--Not in cold marble stones, not in
temples damp and dead, but in fresh oak-groves
weaves and rustles the German God. _Uhland._
=Nicht jede Besserung ist Tugend=--Not every 10
improvement is virtue. _Gellert._
=Nicht Kunst and Wissenschaft allein, / Geduld
will bei dem Werke sein=--Not art and
science only, but patience will be required for
the work. _Goethe._
=Nicht Rosen bloss, auch Dornen hat der
Himmel=--Heaven has not only its roses, but
also its thorns. _Schiller._
=Nicht so redlich wäre redlicher=--Not so honest
were more honest. _Lessing._
=Nichts Abgeschmackters find' ich auf der
Welt / Als einen Teufel, der verzweifelt=--I
know nothing more mawkish than a devil who
despairs. _Goethe._
=Nichts Böses thun ist gut; / Nichts Böses= 15
=wollen ist besser=--To do nothing evil is good;
to wish nothing evil is better. _Claudius._
=Nichts führt zum Guten, was nicht natürlich
ist=--Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
_Schiller._
=Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art=--It
is the manner of noble souls to do nothing by
halves. _Wieland._
=Nichts ist dem Menschen so schwer zu tragen, /
Als eine Reihe von guten Tagen=--No burden
is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of
happy days. _Müller._
=Nichts ist göttlich, als was vernünftig ist=--Nothing
is divine but what is agreeable to
reason. _Kant._
=Nichts ist höher zu schätzen, als der Wert des= 20
=Tages=--Nothing is to be rated higher than the
value of the day. _Goethe._
=Nichts ist so elend als ein Mann, / Der alles
will, und der nichts kann=--Nothing is so miserable
as a man who wills everything and can do
nothing. _Claudius._
=Nichts stirbt, was wirklich gut und göttlich
war=--Nothing that was really good and godlike
dies. _Arndt._
=Nichts thun lehrt Uebel thun=--Doing nothing
is a lesson in doing ill. _Ger. Pr._
=Nichtswürdig ist die Nation, die nicht / Ihr
Alles freudig setzt an ihre Ehre=--Worthless
is the nation that does not gladly stake its all
on its honour. _Schiller._
=Nick does not pretend to be a gentleman.= 25
_Arbuthnot._
=Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous
are the most adhesive.= _Haliburton._
=Nie kommt das Unglück ohne sein Gefolge=--Misfortune
never comes without his retinue.
_Heine._
=Niemand ist frei, der nicht über sich selbst
Herr ist=--No man is free who is not lord over
himself. _Claudius._
=Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei
hält ohne es zu sein=--No one is more a slave
than he who considers himself free without being
so. _Goethe._
=Niemand weiss, wie weit seine Kräfte gehen,= 30
=bis er sie versucht hat=--No one knows how far
his powers go till he has tried them. _Goethe._
=Niggardliness is not good husbandry.= _Addison._
=Night is a good herdsman; she brings all
creatures home.= _Gael. Pr._
=Night is the mither= (mother) =o' thoughts.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Night is the Sabbath of mankind, / To rest the
body and the mind.= _Butler._
=Night! that great shadow and profile of the= 35
=day.= _Jean Paul._
=Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day /
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.=
_Rom. and Jul._, iii. 5.
=Night's deepest gloom is but a calm, / That
soothes the wearied mind; / The labour'd
day's restoring balm, / The comfort of mankind.=
_Leigh Hunt._
=Nightingales will not sing in a cage.= _Pr._
=Nihil a Deo vacat; opus suum ipse implet=--Nothing
is void of God; His work everywhere
is full of Himself. _Sen._
=Nihil ad rem= _or_ =versum=--Not to the purpose, or 40
point.
=Nihil agit qui diffidentem verbis solatur suis; /
Is est amicus qui in re dubia re juvat, ubi re
est opus=--He does nothing who seeks to console
a desponding man with words; a friend is one
who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds
are called for. _Plaut._
=Nihil aliud necessarium ut sis miser, quam
ut te miserum credas=--Nothing else is necessary
to make you wretched than to fancy you
are so.
=Nihil cum fidibus graculo=--Jackdaws have
nothing to do with a lute. _Gell._
=Nihil enim legit, quod non excerperet. Dicere
etiam solebat, nullum esse librum tam malum,
ut non aliqua parte prodesset=--He read no
book which he did not make extracts from. He
also used to say, "No book was so bad but good
of some kind might be got out of it." _Pliny the
Elder._
=Nihil eripit fortuna nisi quod et dedit=--Fortune
takes nothing away but what she also gave.
_Pub. Syr._
=Nihil est ab omni / Parte beatum=--There is
nothing that is blessed in every respect. _Hor._
=Nihil est annis velocius!=--Nothing is swifter than
our years. _Ovid._
=Nihil est aptius ad delectationem lectoris,= 5
=quam temporum varietates, fortunæque vicissitudines=--Nothing
contributes more to the
entertainment of a reader than the changes of
times and the vicissitudes of fortune. _Cic._
=Nihil est quod credere de se / Non possit=--There
is nothing that it (_i.e._, power, _potestas_)
cannot believe itself capable of. _Juv._
=Nihil est quod Deus efficere non possit.=--There
is nothing which the Deity cannot effect. _Cic._
=Nihil est tam utile, quod in transitu prosit=--Nothing
is so useful as to be of profit after only
a hasty study of it. _Sen._
=Nihil est tam volucre quam maledictum, nihil
facilius emittitur, nihil citius excipitur, nihil
latius dissipatur=--Nothing is no swift as calumny,
nothing more easily uttered, nothing
more readily received, nothing more widely disseminated.
_Cic._
=Nihil hic nisi carmina desunt=--Nothing is wanting 10
here except a song. _Virg._
=Nihil honestum esse potest, quod justitia vacat=--Nothing
can be honourable where justice is
absent. _Cic._
=Nihil largiundo gloriam adeptus est=--He acquired
glory without bribery. _Sall._
=Nihil morosius hominum judiciis=--Nothing so
peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of
one another. _Erasmus._
=Nihil potest rex nisi quod de jure potest=--The
king can do nothing but what the law allows. _L._
=Nihil quod est inconveniens est licitum=--Nothing 15
which is inconvenient is lawful. _L._
=Nihil scire est vita jucundissima=--To know
nothing at all is the happiest life. _Pr._
=Nihil scriptum miraculi causa=--Nothing is
written here to excite wonder, or for effect.
_Tac._
=Nihil simul inventum est et perfectum=--Nothing
is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
_Coke._
=Nihil tam absurdum dici potest ut non dicatur
a philosopho=--There is nothing so absurd but it
may be said by a philosopher. _Cic._
=Nihil tam firmum est, cui periculum non sit= 20
=etiam ab invalido=--Nothing is so steadfast as
to be free of danger from even the weakest.
_Quint. Curt._
=Nihil tam munitum est, quod non expugnari
pecunia possit=--Nothing is so strongly fortified
that it cannot be taken by money. _Cic._
=Nihil turpius est quam gravis ætate senex,
qui nullum aliud habet argumentum, quo se
probet diu vixisse, præter ætatem=--There is
nothing more despicable than an old man who
has no other proof than his age to offer of his
having lived long in the world. _Sen._
=Nihil unquam peccavit, nisi quod mortua est=--She
never once sinned but when she died. _Inscription
on a wife's tomb in Rome._
=Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum=--He
considered nothing done so long as
anything remained to be done. _Lucan, of Julius
Cæsar._
="Nil admirari" is the motto which men of the= 25
=world always affect, thinking it vulgar to
wonder or be enthusiastic.= _Sir Egerton
Brydges._
=Nil admirari prope est res una, Numici, / Solaque,
quæ possit facere et servare beatum=--To
wonder at nothing, Numicius, is almost the one
and only thing which can make and keep men
happy. _Hor._
=Nil æquale homini fuit illi=--There was no consistency
in that man. _Hor._
=Nil agit exemplum litem quod lite resolvit=--An
illustration which solves one difficulty by involving
us in another settles nothing. _Hor._
=Nil consuetudine majus=--Nothing is more powerful
than custom, or habit. _Ovid._
=Nil cupientium / Nudus castra peto=--Naked 30
myself, I make for the camp of those who desire
nothing. _Hor._
=Nil debet=--He owes nothing. _L._
=Nil desperandum=--There is no ground for despair.
=Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice
Teucro=--Let us despair of nothing while Teucer
is our leader and we under his auspices. _Hor._
=Nil dicit=--He says nothing, _i.e._, he has no defence
to make. _L._
=Nil dictu fœdum visuque hæc limina tangat, /= 35
=Intra quæ puer est=--Let nothing filthy to be
said or seen touch this threshold, within which
there is a boy. _Juv._
=Nil dictum quod non dictum prius=--There can
be nothing said now which has not been said
before. _L._
=Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico=--As
long as I have my senses, there is nothing I
would prefer to an agreeable friend. _Hor._
=Nil erit ulterius quod nostris moribus addat /
Posteritas; eadem cupient facientque minores: /
Omne in præcipiti vitium stetit=--There
will be nothing left for posterity to add to our
manners; our descendants will wish for and do
the same things as we do; every vice has reached
its culminating point. _Juv._
=Nil feret ad manes divitis umbra suos=--The
ghost of the rich man will carry nothing to the
shades below. _Ovid._
=Nil fuit unquam sic impar sibi=--Never was such 40
an inconsistent creature seen before. _Hor._
=Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, /
Quam quod ridiculos homines facit=--Unhappy
poverty has nothing in it more galling than this,
that it makes men ridiculous. _Juv._
=Nil homini certum est=--There is nothing assured
to mortals. _Ovid._
=Nil me officit unquam, / Ditior hic, aut est
quia doctior; est locus uni / Cuique suus=--It
never the least annoys me that another is
richer or more learned than I; every one has his
own place assigned him. _Hor._
=Nil mortalibus arduum est=--Nothing is too
arduous for mortals. _Hor._
=Nil nisi cruce=--No hope but in the cross. _M._ 45
=Nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale fatentes=--Confessing
that none like you has arisen before,
none will ever arise. _Hor._
=Nil peccant oculi, si oculis animus imperet=--The
eyes don't err if the mind governs them.
_Pub. Syr._
=Nil proprium ducas quod mutari potest=--Never
deem that your own which can be changed. _Pub.
Syr._
=Nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi ducunt=--They
deem nothing right except what seems good to
themselves. _Hor._
=Nil sine magno / Vita labore dedit mortalibus=--Life
has granted nothing to mankind save
through great labour. _Hor._
=Nil sine te mei prosunt honores=--The honours 5
I obtain are nothing without thee. _Hor. to the
Muse._
=Nil sole et sale utilius=--Nothing so useful as the
sun and salt. _Pr._
=Nil spernat auris, nec tamen credat statim=--Let
the ear despise nothing, nor yet be too ready
to believe. _Phæd._
=Nil tam difficile est quod non solertia vincat=--There
is nothing so difficult but skill will surmount
it. _Pr._
=Nil tam inæstimable est quam animi multitudinis=--Nothing
is so contemptible as the sentiments
of the mob. _Sen._
=Nil temere novandum=--Make no rash innovations. 10
_L._
=Nil unquam longum est, quod sine fine placet=--Nothing
is ever long which never ceases to
please.
=Nimia cura deterit magis quam emendat=--Too
much pains may injure rather than improve your
work. _Pr._
=Nimia est voluptas, si diu abfueris a domo /
Domum si redieris, si tibi nulla est ægritudo
animo obviam=--It is a very great pleasure if, on
your return home after a long absence, you are
not confronted with anything to vex you. _Plaut._
=Nimia illæc licentia / Profecto evadet in aliquod
magnum malum=--This extreme licentiousness
will assuredly develop into some dire disaster.
_Ter._
=Nimia subtilitas in jure reprobatur, et talis= 15
=certitudo certitudinem confundit=--Too much
subtlety in law is condemned, and such certainty
destroys certainty. _L._
=Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod /
Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur
eodem=--There are few, I say, to whom this
fellow should appear insane, since by far the
majority of people are infected with the same
malady. _Hor._
=Nimis uncis / Naribus indulges=--You indulge in
swearing (_lit._ upturned nostrils) too much.
=Nimium altercando veritas amittitur=--In too
eager disputation the truth is lost sight of. _Pr._
=Nimium ne crede colori=--Trust not too much to
appearances. _Virg._
=Nimius in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis= 20
=amantior=--Too fastidious as regards
truth, and with a greater liking for exactness
than beauty. _Quinct._
=Nimm alles leicht! das Träumen lass und Grübeln! /
So bleibst du wohlbewahrt vor tausend
Uebeln=--Take everything easily; leave off
dreaming and brooding; then wilt thou be safe-shielded
from a thousand ills. _Uhland._
=Nimm die Welt, wie sie ist, nicht wie sie seyn
sollte=--Take the world as it is, not as it should
be. _Ger. Pr._
=Nimm wahr die Zeit; sie eilet sich, / Und
kommt nicht wieder ewiglich=--Take thou
good note of time; it hurries past thee, and
comes not back again for ever. _Claudius._
=Nine tailors cannot make a man.= _Pr._
=Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense,= 25
=and the clever books are the refutation of
that nonsense.= _Disraeli._
=Nine-tenths of our critics have told us little
more of Shakespeare than what honest
Franz Horn says his neighbours used to
tell of him, "he was a great spirit, and stept
majestically along."= _Carlyle._
=Nine things to sight required are: / The power
to see, the light, the visible thing, / Being
not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far; /
Clear space, and time, the form distinct to
bring.= _Sir John Davies._
=Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of
Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from
youth to manhood. That interval is usually
occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed
affection. We recover and we find ourselves
a new being. The intellect has become
hardened by the fire through which
it has passed. The mind profits by the
wrecks of every passion, and we may measure
our road to wisdom by the sorrows we
have undergone.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Nine tithes of times / Face-flatterer and back-biter
are the same.= _Tennyson._
=Nineteen nay-says are half a grant.= _Allan_ 30
_Ramsay._
=Nisi caste, saltem caute=--If not chastely, at
least cautiously.
=Nisi Dominus, frustra=--Unless the Lord be with
us, all is vain. _M._
=Nisi prius=--Unless before. A judicial writ.
=Nisi utile est quod facias, stulta est gloria=--Unless
what we do is useful, our glorying is vain.
_Phæd._
=Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata=--We 35
are ever striving after what is
forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
_Ovid._
=Nitor in adversum, nec me, qui cætera vincit /
Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi=--I
struggle against an opposing current; the torrent
which sweeps away others does not overpower
me, and I make head against the on-rushing
stream. _Ovid._
="No," a monosyllable, the easiest learned by
the child, but the most difficult to practise
by the man, contains within it the import of
a life, the weal or woe of an eternity.= _Johnson._
=No accidents are so unlucky that the prudent
may not draw some advantage from them.=
_La Roche._
=No affections and a great brain; these are the
men to command the world.= _Disraeli._
=No age ever seemed the age of Romance to= 40
=itself.= _Carlyle._
=No age, sex, or condition is above or below
the absolute necessity of modesty; but without
it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.=
_Barton._
=No answer is also an answer.= _Pr._
=No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing
thought, and no art is capable of
expressing thought which does not change.=
_Ruskin._
=No artist-work is so high, so noble, so grand,
so enduring, so important for all time, as the
making of character in a child.= _Charlotte
Cushman._
=No ashes are lighter than those of incense,
and few things burn out sooner.= _Landor._
=No atheist denies a divinity, but only some
name of a divinity; the God is still present
there, working in that benighted heart, were
it only as a god of darkness.= _Carlyle._
=No author can be as moral as his works, as no
preacher is as pious as his sermons.= _Jean
Paul._
=No author ever spared a brother; / Wits are= 5
=gamecocks to one another.= _Gay._
=No author is a man of genius to his publisher.=
_Heine._
=No autumn fruit without spring blossoms.= _Pr._
=No beast so fierce but knows some touch of
pity.= _Rich. III._, i. 2.
=No bees, no honey; / No work, no money.= _Pr._
=No belief of ours will change the facts or= 10
=reverse the laws of the spiritual universe;
and it is our first business to discover the
laws and to learn how the facts stand.= _Dr.
Dale._
=No belief which is contrary to truth can be
really useful.= _J. S. Mill._
=No bird ever flew so high but it had to come to
the ground for food.= _Dut. Pr._
=No blank, no trifle, Nature made or meant.=
_Young._
=No book is worth anything which is not worth
much; nor is it serviceable until it has been
read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again.=
_Ruskin._
=No book that will not improve by repeated= 15
=readings deserves to be read at all.= _Carlyle._
=No book was ever written down by any but
itself.= _Bentley._
=No ceremony that to great one 'longs, / Not
the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, /
The marshal's truncheon nor the judge's
robe, / Become them with one half so good
a grace / As mercy does.= _Meas. for Meas._,
ii. 2.
=No chair is so much wanted (in our colleges)
as that of a professor of books.= _Emerson._
=No chaos can continue chaotic with a soul in
it.= _Carlyle._
=No character was ever rightly understood= 20
=until it had been first regarded with a certain
feeling, not of tolerance only, but of sympathy.=
_Carlyle._
=No cheerfulness can ever be produced by effort
which is itself painful.= _Goldsmith._
=No cloth is too fine for moth to devour.= _Pr._
=No compound of this earthly ball / Is like
another all in all.= _Tennyson._
=No conflict is so severe as his who labours to
subdue himself.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No conquest can ever become permanent= 25
=which does not withal show itself beneficial
to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.=
_Carlyle._
=No corn without chaff.= _Dut. Pr._
=No; creation, one would think, cannot be easy;
your Jove has severe pains, and fire flames,
in the head out of which an armed Pallas is
struggling.= _Carlyle._
=No creature smarts so little as a fool.= _Pope._
=No crime is so great as daring to excel.=
_Churchill._
=No cross, no crown.= _Quarles._ 30
=No diga la lengua par do pague la cabeza=--The
tongue talks at the head's cost. _Sp. Pr._
=No distance breaks the tie of blood: / Brothers
are brothers evermore; / Nor wrong, nor
wrath of deadliest mood, / That magic may
o'erpower.= _Keble._
=No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom
shall die with you.= _Job, in Bible._
=No doubt every person is entitled to make and
to think as much of himself as possible, only
he ought not to worry others about this, for
they have enough to do with and in themselves,
if they too are to be of some account,
both now and hereafter.= _Goethe._
=No dynamite will ever be invented that can= 35
=rule; it can but dissolve and destroy. Only
the word of God and the heart of man can
govern.= _Ruskin._
=No earnest man, in any time, ever spoke what
was wholly meaningless.= _Carlyle._
=No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and
simple. He will never borrow from others
that which he has not already, more or less,
thought out for himself.= _C. Kingsley._
=No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor
any pleasure so lasting.= _Lady Montagu._
=No errors are so mischievous as those of great
men.= _Pr._
=No evil can touch him who looks on human= 40
=beauty; he feels himself at one with himself
and with the world.= _Goethe._
=No evil dies so soon as that which has been
patiently sustained.= _W. Secker._
=No evil is felt till it comes, and when it comes
no counsel helps. Wisdom is always too
early and too late.= _Rückert._
=No evil is without its compensation.= _Sen._
=No evil propensity of the human heart is so
powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.=
_Sen._
=No experiment is dangerous the result of which= 45
=we have the courage to meet.= _Goethe._
=No expression of politeness but has its root in
the moral nature of man.= _Goethe._
=No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, /
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.=
_Moore._
=No fact in nature but carries the whole sense
of nature.= _Emerson._
=No falsehood can endure / Touch of celestial
temper.= _Milton._
=No fathers or mothers think their own children= 50
=ugly.= _Cervantes._
=No fishing like fishing in the sea.= _Pr._
=No flattery, boy; an honest man can't live
by 't; / It is a little sneaking art, which
knaves / Use to cajole and soften fools
withal.= _Otway._
=No fool was ever so foolish, but some one
thought him clever.= _Pr._
=No fountain so small but that heaven may be
imaged in its bosom.= _Hawthorne._
=No friend a friend until he shall prove a friend.= 55
_Beaumont and Fletcher._
=No frost can freeze Providence.= _Pr._
=No gains without pains.= _Pr._
=No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes.=
_Carlyle._
=No girl who is well bred, kind, and modest is
ever offensively plain; all real deformity
means want of manners or of heart.= _Ruskin._
=No golden age ever called itself golden, but
only expected one.= _Jean Paul._
=No good book or good thing of any sort shows
its best face at first; nay, the commonest
quality in a true work of art, if its excellence
have any depth and compass, is that at first
sight it occasions a certain disappointment.=
_Carlyle._
=No good doctor ever takes physic.= _It. Pr._ 5
=No good is ever done to society by the pictorial
representation of its diseases.= _Ruskin._
=No good lawyer ever goes to law himself.= _It. Pr._
=No good or lovely thing exists in this world
without its correspondent darkness; and the
universe presents itself continually to mankind
under the stern aspect of warning, or
of choice, the good and the evil set on the
right hand and the left.= _Ruskin._
=No good work whatever can be perfect; and
the demand for perfection is always a sign
of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.=
_Ruskin._
=No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.= 10
_Corn. Nepos._
=No grace can save any man unless he helps
himself.= _Ward Beecher._
=No grain of sand / But moves a bright and
million-peopled land, / And hath its Eden
and its Eves, I deem.= _Blanchard._
=No grand doer in this world can be a copious
speaker about his doings.= _Carlyle._
=No great composition was ever produced but
with the same heavenly involuntariness in
which a bird builds her nest.= _Ruskin._
=No great intellectual thing was ever done= 15
=by great effort.= _Ruskin._
=No great man was ever other than a genuine
man.= _Carlyle._
=No great truth is allowed by Nature to be
demonstrable to any person who, foreseeing
its consequences, desires to refuse it.= _Ruskin._
=No greater hell than to be a slave to fear.=
_Ben Jonson._
=No greater men are now than ever were.=
_Emerson._
=No greater misfortune can befall a man than= 20
=to be the victim of an idea which has no hold
on his life, still more which detaches him
from it.= _Goethe._
=No greater promisers than those who have
nothing to give.= _Pr._
=No hand can make the clock strike for me the
hours that are past.= _Byron._
=No hay dulzura sin sudor=--No sweetness without
sweat. _Sp. Pr._
=No hay tal razon como la del baston=--There is
no argument like that of a stick. _Sp. Pr._
=No heart opens to sympathy without letting= 25
=in delicacy.= _J. M. Barrie._
=No Hecuba, by aid of rouge and ceruse, is a
Helen made.= _Cowper._
=No herb will cure love.= _Pr._
=No heroine can create a hero through love of
one, but she may give birth to one.= _Jean
Paul._
=No honestly exerted force can be utterly lost.=
_Carlyle._
=No horse so blind as the blind mare.= _Pr._ 30
=No house without mouse; no throne without
thorn.= _Pr._
=No human capacity ever yet saw the whole of
a thing; but we may see more and more of
it the longer we look.= _Ruskin._
=No human face is exactly the same in its lines
on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no
branch in its symmetry.= _Ruskin._
=No idea can succeed except at the expense of
sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a
stain from the struggle of life.= _Renan._
=No intellectual images are without use.= _Johnson._ 35
=No iron chain, or outward force of any kind,
can ever compel the soul of a man to believe
or to disbelieve.= _Carlyle._
="No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind
rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking,
evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of
conjunction, which comes to pull away the
cup just when it is at your lips.= _Scott._
=No joy so great but runneth to an end; / No
hap so hard but may in time amend.= _Robert
Southwell._
=No joy without alloy.= _Pr._
=No knowledge is lost, but perfected, and= 40
=changed for much nobler, sweeter, greater
knowledge.= _Baxter._
=No labour is hard, no time is long, wherein
the glory of eternity is the mark we level
at.= _S. Hieron._
=No law can be finally sacred to me but the law
of my own nature.= _Emerson._
=No leaf moves but as God wills it.= _Sp. Pr._
=No legacy is so rich as honesty.= _All's Well_,
iii. 5.
=No lie you can speak or act, but it will come,= 45
=after longer or shorter circulation, like a
bill drawn on Nature's reality, and be presented
there for payment, with the answer:
"No effects."= _Carlyle._
=No literature is complete until the language
in which it is written is dead.= _Longfellow._
=No longer pipe, no longer dance.= _Pr._
=No lover should have the insolence to think of
being accepted at once, nor should any girl
have the cruelty to refuse at once, without
severe reasons.= _Ruskin._
=No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered
in any age, but certainly not in the dark
ones. Men prospered then only in following
openly-declared purposes, and preaching
candidly-beloved and trusted creeds.= _Ruskin._
=No man at bottom means injustice; it is always= 50
=for some obscure distorted image of a right
that he contends.= _Carlyle._
=No man at the head of affairs always wishes
to be explicit.= _Macaulay._
=No man bathes twice in the same river.=
_Heraclitus._
=No man beholdeth prosperity who doth not encounter
danger; but having encountered
danger, if he surviveth, he beholdeth it.=
_Hitopadesa._
=No man but a blockhead ever wrote except
for money.= _Johnson._
=No man can antedate his experience.= _Emerson._ 55
=No man can answer for his courage who has
never been in danger.= _La Roche._
=No man can be a good poet without first being
a good man.= _Ben Jonson._
=No man can be a poet / That is not a good
cook, to know the palates / And several
tastes of the time.= _Ben Jonson._
=No man can be a hero in anything who is not
first of all a hero in faith.= _Jacobi._
=No man can be brave who considers pain to be= 5
=the greatest evil of life; nor temperate, who
considers pleasure to be the highest good.=
_Cic._
=No man can be good, or great, or happy, except
through inward efforts of his own.= _F.
W. Robertson._
=No man can be said to have the spirit who
does not walk in it, or to be born of the
spirit until the spirit is born of him.= _Ed._
=No man can be so entirely a devil as to extinguish
in himself the last ray of light.=
_Th. Körner._
=No man can become largely rich by his personal
toil, but only by discovery of some
method of taxing the labour of others.=
_Ruskin._
=No man can buy anything in the market with= 10
=gentility.= _Lord Burleigh._
=No man can, for a length of time, be wholly
wretched, if there is not a disharmony (a
folly and wickedness) within himself; neither
can the richest Crœsus, and never so eupeptic,
be other than discontented, perplexed,
unhappy, if he be a fool.= _Carlyle._
=No man can force the harp of his own individuality
into the people's heart; but every
man may play upon the chords of the
people's heart, who draws his inspiration
from the people's instinct.= _Kossuth._
=No man can gather cherries in Kent at the
season of Christmas.= _Pr._
=No man can judge another, because no man
knows himself; for we censure others but
as they disagree with that humour which
we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend
others but for that wherein they seem
to quadrate and consent with us.= _Colton._
=No man can learn what he has not preparation= 15
=for learning, however near to his eyes the
object may be.= _Emerson._
=No man can live half a life when he has
genuinely learned that it is only half a life.
The other half, the higher half, must haunt
him.= _Philips Brooks._
=No man can lose what he never had.= _Walton._
=No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.=
_Pr._
=No man can produce great things who is not
thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.=
_Lowell._
=No man can quite emancipate himself from his= 20
=age and country, or produce a model in which
the education, the religion, the politics, the
usages, and the arts of his times shall have
no share.= _Emerson._
=No man can read with profit that which he
cannot learn to read with pleasure.= _Noah
Porter._
=No man can say in what degree any other
person, besides himself, can be, with strict
justice, called wicked.= _Burns._
=No man can see over his own height.= _Pr._
=No man can serve two masters.= _Jesus._
=No man can thoroughly master more than one= 25
=art or science.= _Hazlitt._
=No man can transcend his own individuality.=
_Schopenhauer._
=No man doth safely appear abroad but he
who can abide at home.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No man doth safely rule but he that hath
learned gladly to obey.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No man doth safely speak but he who is glad
to hold his peace.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No man ever became, or can become, largely= 30
=rich merely by labour and economy.= _Ruskin._
=No man ever did or ever will become truly
eloquent without being a constant reader of
the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and
sublimity of its language.= _Fisher Ames._
=No man ever prayed heartily without learning
something.= _Emerson._
=No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as
he might.= _Emerson._
=No man ever worked his passage anywhere in
a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore,
because of opposition.= _John Neale._
=No man flatters the woman he truly loves.= 35
_Tuckermann._
=No man had ever a point of pride but was
injurious to him.= _Burke._
=No man has a claim to credit upon his own
word, when better evidence, if he had it,
may be easily produced.= _Johnson._
=No man has a prosperity so high and firm but
two or three words can dishearten it.= _Emerson._
=No man has a right to say to his own generation,
turning quite away from it, "Be
damned."= _Carlyle to Emerson._
=No man has a worse friend than he brings= 40
=with him from home.= _Pr._
=No man has any data for estimating, far less
right of judging, the results of a life of
resolute self-denial, until he has had the
courage to try it himself.= _Ruskin._
=No man has come to true greatness who has
not felt in some degree that his life belongs
to his race, and that what God gives him he
gives him for mankind.= _Phillips Brooks._
=No man has worked, or can work, except
religiously.= _Carlyle._
=No man hath a thorough taste of prosperity
to whom adversity never happened.= (?)
=No man hath a velvet cross.= _Pr._ 45
=No man hath a virtue that he has not a glimpse
of; nor any man an attaint, but he carries
some stain of it.= _Troil. and Cress._, i. 2.
=No man, having put his hand to the plough,
and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of
God.= _Jesus._
=No man is a good physician who has never
been sick.= _Arab. Pr._
=No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre.=
_Prince de Condé, from Plutarch._
=No man is always wise except a fool.= _Pr._ 50
=No man is born into this world whose work is
not born with him; there is always work, and
tools to work withal, for those who will; and
blessed are the horny hands of toil.= _Lowell._
=No man is born wise or learned.= _Pr._
=No man is either worthy of a good home here
or a heaven hereafter that is not willing to be
in peril for a good cause.= _Capt. John Brown._
=No man is esteemed for gay garments but by
fools and women.= _Sir W. Raleigh._
=No man is ever good for much who has not
been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between
twenty and thirty.= _Froude._
=No man is ever hurt but by himself.= _Diogenes._
=No man is ever paid for his real work, or should= 5
=ever expect or demand angrily to be paid;
all work properly so called is an appeal from
the seen to the unseen--a devout calling
upon higher powers; and unless they stand
by us, it will not be a work, but a quackery.=
_Carlyle._
=No man is free who cannot command himself.=
_Pythagoras._
=No man is good but as he wishes the good of
others.= _Johnson._
=No man is justified in resisting by word or deed
the authority he lives under for a light cause,
be such authority what it may.= _Carlyle._
=No man is nobler born than another, unless he
is born with better abilities and a more amiable
disposition.= _Sen._
=No man is poor who does not think himself so.= 10
=But if in a full fortune with impatience he
desires more, he proclaims his wants and his
beggarly condition.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=No man is quite sane; each has a slight determination
of blood to the head, to make sure
of holding him hard to some one point which
Nature has taken to heart.= _Emerson._
=No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his
means; and no one is poor whose incomings
exceed his outgoings.= _Haliburton._
=No man is so free as a beggar, and no man
more solemnly a servant than an honest
land-owner.= _Ruskin._
=No man is so happy as never to give offence.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=No man is so old but thinks he may live= 15
=another day.= _Pythagoras._
=No man is so sufficient as never to need assistance.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=No man is so tall that he need never stretch,
nor so small that he need never stoop.= _Dan.
Pr._
=No man is so worthy of envy as he that can be
cheerful in want.= _Bp. Hall._