=No man is such a conqueror as the man w_Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

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._

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

_L._

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

_Suetonius._

=Non omnes eadem mirantur amantque=--All

men do not admire and love the same objects.

_Hor._

=Non omnia possumus omnes=--We cannot all of

us do everything. _Virg._

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

_Cic._

=Non omnis error stultitia est dicendus=--Not 20

every error is to be called folly.

=Non omnis moriar; multaque pars mei / Vitabit

Libitinam=--I shall not wholly die; and a great

part of me shall escape the grave. _Hor._

=Non opus est magnis placido lectore poetis; /

Quamlibet invitum difficilemque tenent=--Great

poets have no need of an indulgent reader;

they hold captive every one however unwilling

and hard to please he may be. _Ovid._

=Non placet quem scurræ laudant, manipulares

mussitant=--I do not like the man whom the

town gentry belaud, but of whom the people of

his own class say nothing. _Plaut._

=Non posse bene geri rempublicam multorum

imperiis=--Under the command of many, a commonwealth

cannot be well conducted. _Corn.

Nep._

=Non possidentem multa vocaveris / Recte= 25

=beatum. Rectius occupat / Nomen beati,

qui Deorum / Muneribus sapienter uti, / Duramque

callet pauperiem pati, / Pejusque

leto flagitium timet=--You would not justly call

him blessed who has great possessions; more

justly does he claim the title who knows how to

use wisely the gifts of the gods and to bear the

hardships of poverty, and who fears disgrace

worse than death. _Hor._

=Non possum ferre, Quirites, / Græcam urbem=--I

cannot, Romans, endure a Grecian city, _i.e._,

Greek or effeminate manners in stern old Rome.

_Juv._

=Non potest severus esse in judicando, qui alios

in se severos esse judices non vult=--He cannot

be strict in judging who does not wish others to

be strict judges of himself. _Cic._

=Non progredi est regredi=--Not to advance is to

go back. _Pr._

=Non pronuba Juno, / Non Hymenæus adest,

non illi Gratia lecto; / Eumenides stravere

torum=--No Juno, guardian of the marriage

rites, no Hymenæus, no one of the Graces,

stood by that nuptial couch. _Ovid._

=Non purgat peccata qui negat=--He who denies 30

his sins does not atone for them. _Pr._

=Non quam diu, sed quam bene vixeris refert=--Not

how long, but how well you have lived is

the main thing. _Sen._

=Non qui soletur, non qui labentia tarde / Tempora

narrando fallat, amicus adest=--There is

no friend near to console me, none to beguile the

weary hours with his talk. _Ovid._

=Non ragioniam di lor; ma guarda, e passa=--Talk

not of them; one look, and then pass on.

_Dante._

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

_M._

=Non satis est pulchra esse poëmata; dulcia= 35

=sunto, / Et quocumque volent animum auditoris

agunto=--It is not enough that poems be

beautiful; they must also be affecting, and move

at will the hearer's soul. _Hor._

=Non scholæ, sed vitæ discimus=--We learn not

at school, but in life. _Sen._

=Non scribit, cujus carmina nemo legit=--That

man does not write whose verses no man reads.

_Mart._

=Non semper erit æstas=--It will not always be

summer. _Hesiod._

=Non semper erunt Saturnalia=--The carnival

will not last for ever.

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

inference.

=Non si male nunc, et olim sic erit=--If it is ill

now, it will not also be so hereafter. _Hor._

=Non sibi sed patriæ=--Not for himself, but for his

country. _M._

=Non sine numine=--Not without the Divine approval

_M._

=Non sum qualis eram=--I am not what I once

was. _Hor._

=Non tali auxilio, nec defensoribus istis / Tempus= 45

=eget=--The times require other aid and other

defenders than those you bring. _Virg._

=Non tu corpus eras sine pectore. Di tibi formam, /

Di tibi divitias dederant, artemque

fruendi=--You were at no time ever a body without

a soul. The gods have given you beauty, the

gods have given you wealth, and the skill to

enjoy it. _Horace to Tibullus._

=Non usitata, nec tenui ferar penna=--I shall be

borne on no common, no feeble, wing. _Hor._

=Non uti libet, sed uti licet, sic vivamus=--We

must live not as we like, but as we can. _Pr._

=Non v'è peggior ladro d'un cattivo libro=--There

is no robber worse than a bad book. _It. Pr._

=Non vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit=--He

has not lived ill whose birth and death has

been unnoticed by the world. _Hor._

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

=Nondum omnium dierum sol occidit=--The sun

of all days has not yet set. _Pr._

=None acts a friend by a deputy, or can be

familiar by proxy.= _South._

=None are all evil; quickening round his heart, /

One softer feeling would not yet depart.=

_Byron._

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

=None are more unjust in their judgments of= 10

=others than those who have a high opinion

of themselves.= _Spurgeon._

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

_Stanislaus._

=None are so desolate but something dear, /

Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd /

A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.=

_Byron._

=None are so fond of secrets as those who don't

mean to keep them; such persons covet

secrets as a spendthrift covets money--for

the purpose of circulation.= (?)

=None are so hopelessly enslaved as those

who falsely believe they are free.= _Goethe._

=None are so seldom found alone, and are so= 15

=soon tired of their own company, as those

coxcombs who are on the best terms with

themselves.= _Colton._

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

_Pr._

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

=None but a fool would measure his satisfaction

by what the world thinks of it.= _Goldsmith._

=None but a Goethe, at the sun of earthly

happiness, can keep his Phœnix wings unsinged.=

_Carlyle._

=None but an author knows an author's cares, /= 20

=Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears.=

_Cowper._

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

Theobald._

=None but men of strong passions are capable

of rising to greatness.= _Mirabeau._

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

=None can cure their harms by wailing them.=

_Rich. III._, ii. 2.

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

=None ever saw the pillars of the firmament;

yet it is supported.= _Luther._

=None ever was a great poet that applied himself

much to anything else.= _Sir W. Temple._

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

=None is so wasteful as the scraping dame; /

She loseth three for one--her soul, rest,

fame.= _George Herbert._

=None is so wretched as the poor man who maintains= 30

=the semblance of wealth.= _Spurgeon._

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

=None more impatiently suffer injuries than

those that are most forward in doing them.= (?)

=None of the affections have been noted to

fascinate and bewitch but envy.= _Bacon._

=None of those who own the land own the

landscape; only he whose eye can integrate

all the parts, that is, the poet.= _Emerson._

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

=None of you can tell where the shoe pinches

me.= _Plutarch._

=None shun the light but criminals and evil

spirits.= _Schiller._

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

=None so miserable as a man who wills everything

and can do nothing.= _Claudius._

=None so wise but the advice of others may, at= 40

=some time or other, be useful and necessary

for him.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=None think the great unhappy but the great.=

_Pr._

=None without hope e'er loved the brightest

fair; / But love can hope where reason

would despair.= _Lyttelton._

=Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound /

Reverbs no hollowness.= _King Lear_, i. 1.

=Nor by the wayside ruins let us mourn / Who

have th' eternal towers for our appointed

bourne.= _Keble._

=Nor can either thy own resentment of misfortunes= 45

=within, or the violence of any calamity

without, give thee sufficient grounds, from

the terrible face thy present circumstances

wear, to pronounce that all hope of escape

and better days are past.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Nor deem the irrevocable past / As wholly

wasted, wholly vain, / If, rising on its wrecks,

at last / To something nobler we attain.=

_Longfellow._

=Nor e'en the tenderest heart, and next our

own, / Knows half the reasons why we

smile and sigh!= _Keble._

=Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed /

A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.= _T.

Tickell._

=Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call; /

She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all.=

_Pope._

=Nor grieve to die when far from home; you'll= 50

=find / To Hades everywhere a favouring

wind.= _Anon._

=Nor is it possible to thought / A greater than

itself to know.= _Wm. Blake._

=Nor less I deem that there are powers / Which

of themselves our minds impress; / That we

can feel this mind of ours / In a wide passiveness.=

_Wordsworth._

=Nor love thy life, nor hate, but what thou

liv'st / Live well, how long or short permit

to heaven.= _Milton._

=Nor sequent centuries could hit / Orbit and

sum of Shakespeare's wit.= _Landor._

=Nor sink those stars in empty night; / They= 55

=hide themselves in heaven's own light.= _Montgomery._

=Noris quam elegans formarum spectator fiem=--You

shall see how nice a judge of beauty I

am. _Ter._

=Nos duo turba sumus=--We two are a multitude

(_lit._ a crowd). _Deucalion to Pyrrha after the

deluge, in Ovid._

=Nos hæc novimus esse nihil=--We know that

these things are nothing--mere trifles. _Mart._

=Nos nostraque Deo=--Both we and ours are

God's. _M._

=Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati=--We

are a mere number (but ciphers), and born

to consume the fruits of the earth. _Hor._

=Nos patriæ fines et dulcia linquimus arva=--We

leave the confines of our native country and our

delightful plains. _Virg._

=Nos te, / Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam=--It is we,

O Fortune, we that make thee a goddess. _Juv._

=Nosce tempus=--Know your time; make hay 5

while the sun shines. _Pr._

=Noscenda est mensura sui spectandaque rebus /

In summis minimisque=--A man should know

his own measure, and have regard to it in the

smallest matters as well as the greatest. _Juv._

=Noscitur a sociis=--A man is known by the company

he keeps; a word, by the context.

=Nosse omnia hæc salus est adolescentulis=--It

is salutary for young men to know all these

things. _Ter._

=Nosse volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo=--All

wish to know, but no one to pay the fee. _Juv._

=Nostra nos sine comparatione delectant; nunquam= 10

=erit felix quem torquebit felicior=--What

we have pleases us if we do not compare it with

what others have; he never will be happy to

whom a happier is a torture. _Sen._

=Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, /

As his corse to the rampart we hurried: /

Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, /

O'er the grave where our hero we buried.=

_Rev. C. Wolfe._

=Not a flower, not a flower sweet, / On my

black coffin let there be strewn; / Not a

friend, not a friend greet / My poor corpse,

where my bones shall be thrown; / A thousand,

thousand sighs to save, / Lay me

(what you will) O where / Sad lover ne'er

find my grave, / To weep there.= (?)

=Not a man, for being simply man, / Hath any

honour, but honour for those honours / That

are without him, as place, riches, favour, /

Prizes of accident, as oft as merit.= _Troil.

and Cress._, iii. 3.

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

=Not a Red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg,= 15

=can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole

world must smart for it. Will not the price

of beaver rise?= _Carlyle._

=Not a single shaft can hit / Till the God of

love sees fit.= _Ryland._

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

=Not all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, /

Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lines of rhyme, /

Can blazon evil deeds or consecrate a crime.=

_Byron._

=Not all the water in the rough rude sea / Can

wash the balm from an anointed king; / The

breath of worldly men cannot depose / The

deputy elected by the Lord.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.

=Not alone to know, but to act according to= 20

=thy knowledge, is thy destination.= _Fichte._

=Not as a vulture, but a dove, / The Holy

Ghost came from above.= _Longfellow, after

Fuller._

=Not body enough to cover his mind decently

with; his intellect is improperly exposed.=

_Sydney Smith._

=Not brute force, but only persuasion and faith

is the king of this world.= _Carlyle._

=Not by levity of floating, but by stubborn force

of swimming, shalt thou make thy way. A

grand "vis inertiæ" in thee, Mr. Bull.=

_Carlyle._

=Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit,= 25

=saith the Lord.= _Bible._

=Not by the law of force, but by the law of

labour, has any man right to the possession

of the land.= _Ruskin._

=Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, / Is our

destined end or way; / But to act that each

to-morrow / May find us farther than to-day.=

_Longfellow._

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

shoes.= _Pr._

=Not fame, but that which it merits, is what a

man should esteem.= _Schopenhauer._

=Not for fellowship in hatred, but in love am I= 30

=here.= _Sophocles._

=Not he that commendeth himself is approved,

but whom the Lord commendeth.= _St.

Paul._

=Not he who has many ideas, but he who has

one conviction may become a great man.=

_Cötvös._

=Not heaven itself upon the past has power; /

But what has been, has been, and I have

had my hour.= _Dryden._

=Not in a man's having no business with men, but

in having no unjust business with them, and in

having all manner of true and just business,

can either his or their blessedness be found

possible, and this waste world become, for

both parties, a home and peopled garden.=

_Carlyle._

=Not in nature, but in man is all the beauty= 35

=and the worth he sees. The world is very

empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting

soul for its pride.= _Emerson._

=Not in pulling down, but in building up, does

man find pure joy.= _Goethe._

=Not in the achievement, but in the endurance,

of the human soul, does it show its divine

grandeur and its alliance with the infinite

God.= _Chapin._

=Not kings alone--the people too have their

flatterers.= _Mirabeau._

=Not less in God's sight is the end of the day

than the beginning.= _Gael. Pr._

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

_George Eliot._

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

=Not many words are needed to refuse; by the

refused the "no" alone is heard.= _Goethe._

=Not marble, nor the gilded monuments of

princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.=

_Cymbeline._ (?)

=Not misgovernment, nor yet no government;

only government will now serve.= _Carlyle._

=Not once or twice in our rough island-story, /= 45

=The path of duty was the way to glory: /

He that walks it, only thirsting / For the

right, and learns to deaden / Love of self,

before his journey closes / He shall find

the stubborn thistle bursting / Into glossy

purples, which outredden / All voluptuous

garden-roses.= _Tennyson._

=Not one false man but does unaccountable

mischief; how much, in a generation or

two, will twenty-seven millions, mostly

false, manage to accumulate?= _Carlyle._

=Not one of our faculties that it is not a delight

to exercise.= _W. R. Greg._

=Not one of our senses that, in its healthy state,

is not an avenue to enjoyment.= _W. R. Greg._

=Not one word of any book is readable by you,

except so far as your mind is one with its

author's; and not merely his words like your

words, but his thoughts like your thoughts.=

_Ruskin._

=Not only all common speech, but science, poetry

itself, is no other, if thou consider it, than right

naming.= _Carlyle._

=Not only has the unseen world a reality, but= 5

=the only reality; the rest being, not metaphorically,

but literally and in scientific strictness,

"a show."= _Carlyle._

=Not our logical, mensurative faculty, but our

imaginative one is king over us; I might

say, priest and prophet to lead us heavenward,

or magician and wizard to lead us

hellward.= _Carlyle._

=Not so easily can a man tear up the roots of

his old life, and transplant himself into a new

soil and a foreign atmosphere.= _Ed._

=Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved

Rome more.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.

=Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck,

rouses the flock to fly and follow.= _Chinese

Pr._

=Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but= 10

=the hero's heart.= _Serv. Pr._

=Not the maker of plans and promises, but

rather he who offers faithful service in

small matters is most welcome to one who

would achieve what is good and lasting.=

_Goethe._

=Not this man and that man, but all men make

up mankind, and their united tasks the task

of mankind.= _Carlyle._

=Not to attempt a gallant deed for which one

has the impulse may be braver than the

doing of it.= _J. M. Barrie._

=Not to believe in God, but to acknowledge

Him when and wheresoever He reveals

Himself, is the one sole blessedness of man

on earth.= _Goethe._

=Not to desire or admire, if a man could learn= 15

=it, were more / Than a walk all day like the

sultan of old in a garden of spice.= _Tennyson._

=Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.=

_Milton._

=Not to know what has been transacted in

former times is to continue always a child.=

_Cic._

=Not to return one good office for another is

inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical.=

_Sen._

=Not to see the wood for the trees=, _i.e._, the

whole for the details. _Ger. Pr._

=Not to speak your opinion well, but to have a= 20

=good and just opinion worth speaking; for

every Parliament, as for every man, this

latter is the point.= _Carlyle._

=Not to talk of thy doing, and become the envy

of surrounding flunkeys, but to taste of the

fruit of thy doings themselves, is thine.= _Carlyle._

=Not towards the impossibility, self-government

of a multitude by a multitude; but towards

some possibility, government by the wisest,

does bewildered Europe now struggle.= _Carlyle._

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

_Carlyle._

=Not what the man knows, but what he wills,

determines his worth or unworth, his strength

or weakness, his happiness or misery.= _Lindner._

=Not what we wish, but what we want, / Oh,= 25

=let thy grace supply.= _Merrick._

=Not when I rise above, only when I rise to,

something, do I approve myself.= _Jacobi._

=Not where they dash ashore and break and

moan are waters deadliest.= _A. Mary F.

Robinson._

=Not without a shudder may a human hand

clutch into the mysterious urn of destiny.=

_Schiller._

=Note bene=--Note well.

=Notandi sunt tibi mores=--The manners of men 30

are to be carefully observed. _Hor._

=Note how the falcon starts at every sight, /

New from his hood, but what a quiet eye /

Cometh of freedom.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._

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

Pr._

=Noth kennt kein Gebot=--Necessity knows no

law. _Ger. Pr._

=Noth lehrt beten=--Necessity teaches to pray.

_Ger. Pr._

=Nothing altogether passes away without result.= 35

=We are here to leave that behind us

which will never die.= _Goethe._

=Nothing amuses more harmlessly than computation,

and nothing is oftener applicable

to real business or speculative inquiries. A

thousand stories which the ignorant tell

and believe die away at once when the

computist takes them in his grip.= _Johnson._

=Nothing astonishes men so much as common

sense and plain dealing.= _Emerson._

=Nothing at bottom is interesting to the majority

of men but themselves.= _Schopenhauer._

=Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.=

_Love's L. Lost_, ii. 1.

=Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eye= 40

=of man.= _Arab. Pr._

=Nothing but ourselves can finally beat us.=

_Carlyle._

=Nothing can atone for the want of modesty,

without which beauty is ungraceful and wit

detestable.= _Steele._

=Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.=

_Ruskin._

=Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.=

_Publius Syrus._

=Nothing can be hostile to religion which is= 45

=agreeable to justice.= _Gladstone._

=Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has

laid up no material can produce no combinations.=

_Sir J. Reynolds._

=Nothing can be more fatal in politics than a

preponderance of the philosophical, or in

philosophy than a preponderance of the political,

spirit.= _Lecky._

=Nothing can be preserved but what is good.=

_Emerson._

=Nothing can be so injurious to progress as to

be altogether blamed or altogether praised.=

_Goethe._

=Nothing can be termed mine own but what I= 50

=make my own by using well.= _Middleton._

=Nothing can bring you peace but yourself;

nothing, but the triumph of principles.=

_Emerson._

=Nothing can come out of a sack that is not in

it.= _It. Pr._

=Nothing can ferment itself to clearness in a

colander.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing can need a lie; / A fault, which needs

it most, grows two thereby.= _Herbert._

=Nothing can overtake an untruth if it has a= 5

=minute's start.= _J. M. Barrie._

=Nothing can work me damage except myself.=

_St. Bernard._

=Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.=

_Tam. of the Shrew_, i. 2.

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

=Nothing contributes so much to cheerfulness

as health, or so little as riches.= _Schopenhauer._

=Nothing costs less or is cheaper than compliments= 10

=of civility.= _Cervantes._

=Nothing deepens and intensifies family traits

like poverty and toil and suffering. It is

the furnace heat that brings out the characters,

the pressure that makes the strata

perfect.= _John Burroughs._

=Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the

unequal and untimely interchange of power

pressed too far and relaxed too much.= _Bacon._

=Nothing dies, nothing can die. No idlest word

thou speakest but is a seed cast into time,

and grows through all eternity.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing does so much honour to a woman as

her patience, and nothing does her so little

as the patience of her husband.= _Joubert._

=Nothing done by man in the past has any= 15

=deeper sense than what he is doing now.=

_Emerson._

=Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion.=

_Bp. Hall._

=Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.=

_Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.

=Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow

for his death. The pleasure of his company

has not so powerful an influence.= _Hume._

=Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, / A fool

in fashion, save a fool that's out; / His passion

for absurdity's so strong, / He cannot

bear a rival in the throng.= _Young._

=Nothing exposes us more to madness than= 20

=distinguishing ourselves from others, and

nothing more contributes to maintain our

common-sense than living in community of

feeling with other people.= _Goethe._

=Nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in

malice; then must you speak / Of one, that

loved not wisely, but too well ... of one,

whose hand / Like the base Indian, threw

a pearl away, / Richer than all his tribe.=

_Othello_, v. 2.

=Nothing for nothing.= _Pr._

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

_Pr._

=Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the

detecting another in an untruth. It strikes

at the root of our confidence ever after.=

_Hazlitt._

=Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The= 25

=lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but

the day sends his bright heralds before him

to prepare the world for his coming.= _Hare._

=Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is

lost; / Every good deed nobly done will

repay the cost.= (?)

=Nothing hath got so far / But man hath caught

and kept it as his prey; / His eyes dismount

the highest star; / He is in little all the

sphere.= _George Herbert._

=Nothing hitherto was ever stranded, cast

aside; but all, were it only a withered leaf,

works together with all; is borne forward

on the bottomless, shoreless flood of action,

and lives through perpetual metamorphoses.=

_Carlyle._

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

=Nothing in his life / Became him like the= 30

=leaving it; he died / As one that had been

studied in his death / To throw away the

dearest thing he owed, / As 'twere a careless

trifle.= _Macbeth_, i. 4.

=Nothing in itself deformed or incongruous can

give us any real satisfaction.= _Cervantes._

=Nothing in love can be premeditated; it is as

a power divine, that thinks and feels within

us, unswathed by our control.= _Mme. de Staël._

=Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, /

Was e'er created solely for itself.= _Young._

=Nothing in the dealings of Heaven with Earth

is so wonderful to me as the way in which

the evil angels are allowed to spot, pervert,

and bring to nothing, or to worse, the powers

of the greatest men: so that Greece must be

ruined, for all that Plato can say; Geneva,

for all that Calvin can say; England, for all

that Sir Thomas More and Bacon can say;

and only Gounod's "Faust" to be the visible

outcome to Europe of the school of Weimar.=

_Ruskin._

=Nothing in the world is more haughty than a= 35

=man of moderate capacity when once raised

to power.= _Baron Wessenberg._

=Nothing is a misery, / Unless our weakness

apprehend it so; / We cannot be more faithful

to ourselves / In anything that's manly,

than to make / Ill-fortune as contemptible to

us / As it makes us to others.= _Beaumont

and Fletcher._

=Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of

your own mind. Absolve yourself to yourself,

and you shall have the suffrage of the

world.= _Emerson._

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

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

=Nothing is constant but a virtuous mind.= 40

_Shirley._

=Nothing is denied to well-directed labour;

nothing is ever to be attained without it.=

_Sir J. Reynolds._

=Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.=

_B. R. Haydon._

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

_Johnson._

=Nothing is endless but inanity.= _Goethe._

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

=Nothing is farther than earth from heaven,

and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.=

_Hare._

=Nothing is given so ungrudgingly as advice.=

_La Roche._

=Nothing is good for a nation but that which

arises from its core and its own general

wants.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is good I see without respect.= _Mer.

of Ven._, v. 1.

=Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it

so.= _Ham._, ii. 2.

=Nothing is graceful that is not our own.=

_Collier._

=Nothing is high because it is in a high place,

and nothing low because it is in a low one.=

_Dickens._

=Nothing is impossible to the man who can= 5

=will.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is insipid to the wise; / To thee insipid

all but what is mad; / Joy season'd

high and tasting strong of guilt.= _Young._

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

=Nothing is less in our power than the heart,

and, far from commanding it, we are forced

to obey it.= _Rousseau._

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

=Nothing is more active than thought, for it= 10

=flies over the universe; nothing stronger than

necessity, for all must submit to it.= _Thales._

=Nothing is more binding than the friendship of

companions-in-arms.= _G. S. Hillard._

=Nothing is more certain than that great poets

are no sudden prodigies, but slow results.=

_Lowell._

=Nothing is more characteristic of a man than

his behaviour towards fools.= _Amiel._

=Nothing is more common than mutual dislike,

where mutual approbation is particularly

expected.= _Johnson._

=Nothing is more common than to express exceeding= 15

=zeal in amending our neighbours, ... while

at the same time we neglect the

beginning at home.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Nothing is more deeply punished than the

neglect of the affinities by which alone

society should be formed, and the insane

levity of choosing associates by others'

eyes.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing

about liberty by slaves.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is more easy than to clear debts by

borrowing.= _Johnson._

=Nothing is more free than the imagination of

man.= _Hume._

=Nothing is more hurtful to a truth than an= 20

=old error.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is more natural than that we should

grow giddy at a great sight which comes

unexpectedly before us, to make us feel at

once our littleness and our greatness. But

there is not in the world any truer enjoyment

than at the moment when we are thus

made giddy for the first time.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is more ruinous for a man than when

he is mighty enough in any part to right

himself without right.= _Jacobi._

=Nothing is more significant of the philosophy of

a man than the footing on which he stands

with his body. The Cynic neglects it, the

Sybarite makes profit out of it, the Trappist

disowns it, and the Idealist forgets it.=

_Lindner._

=Nothing is more surprising than the easiness

with which the many are governed by the

few.= _Hume._

=Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in= 25

=action.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is more unjust or capricious than

public opinion.= _Hazlitt._

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

=Nothing is more offensive to reason= (_widerwärtiger_)

=than an appeal to the majority; it consists

of a few powerful leaders, of rogues who

accommodate themselves, of weaklings who

assimilate themselves, and of the mass who

follow confusedly, without in the least knowing

what they would be at.= _Goethe._

=Nothing is new; we walk where others went; /

There's no vice now but has its precedent.=

_Herrick._

=Nothing is of any value in books excepting the= 30

=transcendental and extraordinary.= _Emerson._

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

=Nothing is perfect until, in some way, it

touches or passes through man.= _T. T.

Munger._

=Nothing is permanently helpful to any race or

condition of men but the spirit that is in

their own hearts, kindled by the love of

their native land.= _Ruskin._

=Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with

variety.= _Bacon._

=Nothing is poetry which does not transport;= 35

=the lyre is a winged instrument.= _Joubert._

=Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.=

_Raleigh._

=Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but

is beautiful in the whole.= _Emerson._

=Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its

exact meaning.= _Whipple._

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

=Nothing is secret that shall not be made= 40

=manifest; neither anything hid that shall

not be known.= _Jesus._

=Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.=

_Goethe._

=Nothing is so beautiful to the eye as truth is

to the mind; nothing so deformed and irreconcilable

to the understanding as a lie.=

_Locke._

=Nothing is so perfectly amusement as a total

change of ideas.= _Sterne._

=Nothing is so conceivable= (_begreiflich_) =to the

child, nothing seems to be so natural to him,

as the marvellous or supernatural.= _Zachariä._

=Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.= 45

_La Fontaine._

=Nothing is so difficult as to help a friend in

matters which do not require the aid of

friendship, but only a cheap and trivial service,

if your friendship wants the basis of

a thorough practical acquaintance.= _Thoreau._

=Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so

hopeless of attainment by labour alone.

Though labour always accompanies the

greatest genius, without the intellectual

gift labour alone will do little.= _Haydon._

=Nothing is so grand as truth, nothing so forcible,

nothing so novel.= _Landor._

=Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners

as flattery. If you flatter all the company,

you please none; if you flatter only one or

two, you affront the rest.= _Swift._

=Nothing is so narrowing, contracting, hardening,= 50

=as always to be moving in the same

groove, with no thought beyond what we

immediately see and hear close around us.=

_Dean Stanley._

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

_Ger. Pr._

=Nothing is so uncertain as the minds of the

multitude.= _Leiz._

=Nothing is superficial to a deep observer. It

is in trifles that the mind betrays itself.=

_Bulwer Lytton._

=Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, /

But an eternal now does always last.= _Cowley._

=Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity.= 5

=The majority has established this,

and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond

it either way.= _Pascal._

=Nothing is thought rare / Which is not new

and followed; yet we know / That what was

worn some twenty years ago / Comes into

grace again.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._

=Nothing is to be preferred before justice.=

_Socrates._

=Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he

must climb with care and confidence.= _Hans

Andersen._

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

=Nothing is truly elegant but what unites use= 10

=with beauty.= _Goldsmith._

=Nothing leads to good which is not natural.=

_Schiller._

=Nothing lovelier can be found / In woman than

to study household good, / And good works

in her husband to promote.= _Milton._

=Nothing makes love sweeter and tenderer

than a little previous scolding and freezing,

just as the grape-clusters acquire by a frost

before vintage thinner skins and better

flavour.= _Jean Paul._

=Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as

to have friends at a distance; they make the

latitudes and longitudes.= _Thoreau._

=Nothing marks the character of a young man= 15

=more than a failure.= _Anon._

=Nothing more readily pleases a vulgar mind

than to find anomalies in conduct or character.=

_Alex. Whitelaw._

=Nothing noble or godlike in the world but has

in it something of "infinite sadness."= _Carlyle._

=Nothing not a reality ever yet got men to pay

bed and board to it for long.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only

the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and

love enable us to surmount obstacles; to

make smooth our way, and lift ourselves

out of the narrow grooves in which other

people sorrowfully distress themselves.=

_Goethe._

=Nothing on earth is without significance, but= 20

=the first and most essential in every matter

is the place where and the hour when.=

_Schiller._

=Nothing, or almost nothing, is certain to me,

except the Divine Infernal character of this

universe I live in, worthy of horror, worthy

of worship.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.= 1 _Hen.

IV._, i. 2.

=Nothing preaches better than the ant, and she

says nothing.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a

perfect indifference to it.= _Hazlitt._

=Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists= 25

=by nature, but all things become so by habit.=

_Epictetus._

=Nothing recommends a man more to the female

mind than courage.= _Spectator._

=Nothing remains to man, nothing is possible

to him of true joy, but in the righteous love

of his fellows, in the knowledge of the laws

and the glory of God, and in the daily use of

the faculties of soul and body with which

God has endowed him.= _Ruskin._

=Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.=

_Amiel._

=Nothing right can be accomplished in art

without enthusiasm.= _Schumann._

=Nothing seems important to me but so far as= 30

=it is connected with morals.= _Cecil._

=Nothing so difficult as a beginning / In poesy,

except perhaps the end; / For oftentimes

when Pegasus seems winning / The race, he

sprains a wing, and down we tend, / Like

Lucifer, when hurl'd from heaven for sinning.=

_Byron._

=Nothing so effectively disconcerts the schemes

of sinister people as the tranquillity of great

souls.= _Mirabeau._

=Nothing so endures as a truly spoken word.=

_Carlyle._

=Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments,

were it but for moments, as

true admiration.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing so much contents us as that which= 35

=confounds us.= _Goldsmith._

=Nothing so much prevents our being natural

as the desire of appearing so.= _La Roche._

=Nothing stands in need of lying but a lie.= _Pr._

=Nothing stings so bitterly as loss of money.= _Pr._

=Nothing succeeds like success.= _Talleyrand._

=Nothing that has ever lived is lost; nothing is= 40

=useless; not a sigh, a joy, or a sorrow which

has not served its purpose.= _Mme. Gasparin._

=Nothing that is violent is permanent.= _Pr._

=Nothing that lives is or can be rigidly perfect;

part of it is decaying, part nascent. The

foxglove blossom--a third part bud, a third

part past, a third part in full bloom--is a

type of the life of this world.= _Ruskin._

=Nothing truly can be made mine own but

what I make mine own by using well.=

_Middleton._

=Nothing venture, nothing win.= _Pr._

=Nothing weighs lighter than a promise.= _Ger. Pr._ 45

=Nothing which is unjust can hope to continue

in this world.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing will be mended by complaints.= _Johnson._

=Nothing's more dull and negligent / Than an

old lazy government, / That knows no interest

of state, / But such as serves a present

strait, / And, to patch up or shift, will close, /

Or break alike, with friends or foes.= _Butler._

=Notre défiance justifie la tromperie d'autrui=--Our

distrust justifies the deceit of others. _La

Roche._

=Notre vie est du vent tissu=--Our life is a web 50

woven of wind. (?)

=Notwithstanding this great proximity of man

to himself, we still remain ignorant of many

things concerning ourselves.= _Hale._

=Nought can be gained by a Sabbath profaned.=

_Saying._

=Nought else there is / But that weird beat

of Time, which doth disjoin / To-day from

Hellas.= _Lewis Morris._

=Nought is so vile that on the earth doth live, /

But to the earth some special good doth

give; / Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from

that fair use, / Revolts from true birth,

stumbling on abuse.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.

=Nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, /

But music for the time doth change its

nature.= _Mer. of Venice_, v. 1.

=Nought treads so silent as the foot of time.=

_Young._

=Nourri dans le sérail, j'en connais les détours=--Brought

up in the seraglio, I know all its

sinuosities. _Racine._

=Nous avons changé tout cela=--We have changed 5

all that. _Molière._

=Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter

les maux d'autrui=--We all have strength enough

to bear the misfortunes of others. _La Roche._

=Nous dansons sur un volcan=--We are dancing

on a volcano. _M. de Salvandy, just prior to

the July Revolution of 1830._

=Nous désirerions peu de choses avec ardeur,

si nous connaissions parfaitement ce que

nous désirons=--We should desire few things

with eagerness if we well knew the worth of

what we are striving for. _La Roche._

=Nous maintiendrons=--We will maintain. _M._

=Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont= 10

=les nôtres, / Et ne croyons le mal que quand

il est venu=--We listen to no instincts but such

as are our own, and we believe in no misfortune

till it comes. _La Fontaine._

=Nous ne savons ce que c'est que le bonheur

ou le malheur absolu=--We do not know what

absolute good or evil is. _Rousseau._

=Nous ne sommes hommes, et nous tenons les

uns aux autres, que par la parole=--We are

men, and associate together, solely in virtue of

speech. (?)

=Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens

que ceux qui sont de notre avis=--We seldom

find any persons of good sense except those who

are of our opinion. _La Roche._

=Nous ne vivons jamais, mais nous esperons de

vivre=--We never live, but we hope to live.

_Pascal._

=Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale,= 15

=nous ne sortirons que par la force=--We

are here by the will of the people, and

nothing but the force of bayonets shall send us

hence. _Mirabeau to the Marquis de Brézé._

=Nous sommes mieux seul qu'avec un sot=--One

had better be alone than with a fool. _Fr.

Pr._

=Nous verrons, dit l'aveugle=--We shall see, as

the blind man said. _Fr._

=Novacula in cotem=--He has met his match (_lit._

the razor against the whetstone). _Pr._

=Novels are tales of adventures which did not

occur in God's creation, but only in the

waste chambers (to be let unfurnished) of

certain human heads, and which are part

and parcel only of the sum of nothings;

which, nevertheless, obtain some temporary

remembrance, and lodge extensively at this

epoch of the world in similar, still more unfurnished,

chambers.= _Carlyle._

=Novels are the journal or record of manners;= 20

=and the new importance of these books

derives from the fact that the novelist begins

to penetrate the surface, and treat this

part of life more worthily.= _Emerson._

=Novels for most part instil into young minds

false views of life.= _Schopenhauer._

=Novelty has something in it that inebriates

the fancy, and not unfrequently dissipates

and fumes away like other intoxication, and

leaves the poor patient, as usual, with an

aching heart.= _Burns._

=Novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous

to be aged in any kind of course, as it is

virtuous to be constant in any undertaking.=

_Meas. for Meas._, iii. 2.

=Novi ego hoc sæculum, moribus quibus siet=--I

know this age, what its character is. _Plaut._

=Novi ingenium mulierum, / Nolunt ubi velis,= 25

=ubi nolis cupiunt ultro=--I know the nature of

women: when you will, they won't; when you

won't, they will. _Ter._

=Novos amicos dum paras, veteres cole=--While

you seek new friendships, take care to cultivate

the old.

=Novum et ad hunc diem non auditum=--New,

and unheard of till this day. _Cic._

=Novus homo=--A new man; a man risen from obscurity.

=Now an incredible deal is demanded, and every

avenue is barred.= _Goethe._

=Now farewell light, thou sunshine bright, /= 30

=And all beneath the sky! / May coward

shame distain his name, / The wretch that

dares not die.= _Burns, in "Macpherson's Lament."_

=Now, good digestion wait on appetite, / And

health on both.= _Macb._, iii. 4.

=Now is now, and Yule's in winter.= _Sc. Pr._

="Now" is the watchword of the wise.= _Pr._

=Now! it is gone. Our brief hours travel post, /

Each with its thought or deed, its Why or

How; / But know, each parting hour gives

up a ghost / To dwell within thee--an eternal

Now!= _Coleridge._

=Now join your hands, and with your hands= 35

=your hearts, / That no dissension hinder

government.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 6.

=Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime, /

Advancing, sowed the earth with orient

pearl.= _Milton._

=Now our fates from unmomentous things / May

rise like rivers out of little springs.= _Campbell._

=Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, /

Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and

harsh; / That unmatch'd form and feature of

blown youth / Blasted with ecstacy: O, woe

is me, / To have seen what I have seen, see

what I see.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills

it; / We are happy now, because God wills

it.= _Lowell._

=Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;= 40

=/ Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow

the garden, / And choke the herbs for

want of husbandry.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 1.

=Now you have feathered your nest.= _Congreve._

=Nowadays compromise and indifference rule

supreme, and instead of solid grit we have

putty or wax.= _Spurgeon._

=Nowadays truth is news.= _Sc. Pr._

=Nowhere can a man get real root-room, and

spread out his branches till they touch the

morning and the evening, but in his own

house.= _Ward Beecher._

=Nox atra cava circumvolat=--Black night envelopes

them with her hollow shade. _Virg._

=Noxiæ pœna par esto=--Let the punishment be

proportionate to the offence. _Cic._

=Nuda veritas=--Undisguised truth. _Hor._

=Nudum pactum=--A mere agreement. _L._

=Nugæ canoræ=--Melodious trifles; agreeable nonsense. 5

_Hor._

=Nugis addere pondus=--To add weight to trifles.

_Hor._

=Nul n'aura de l'esprit, / Hors nous et nos amis=--No

one shall have wit except ourselves and

our friends. _Molière._

=Nul n'est content de sa fortune, ni mécontent

de son esprit=--No one is content with his lot or

discontented with his wit. _Mme. Deshoulières._

=Nulla ætas ad perdiscendum est=--There is no

time of life past learning something. _St. Ambrose._

=Nulla dies sine linea=--Let no day pass without its 10

line. _Pr._

=Nulla falsa doctrina est, quæ non permisceat

aliquid veritatis=--There is no false doctrine

which contains not a mixture of truth.

=Nulla fere causa est, in qua non fœmina litem

moverit=--There's hardly a strife in which a

woman has not been a prime mover. _Juv._

=Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas /

Impatiens consortis erit=--There is no faith

among colleagues in power, and all power will

be impatient of a colleague. _Lucan._

=Nulla pallescere culpa=--Not to grow pale at

imputation of guilt. _M._

=Nulla placere diu, vel vivere carmina possunt /= 15

=Quæ scribuntur aquæ potoribus=--No poems

written by water-drinkers can be long popular or

live long. _Hor._

=Nulla res tantum ad discendum profuit quantum

scriptio=--Nothing so much assists learning,

as writing down what we wish to remember.

=Nulla unquam de vita hominis cunctatio longa

est=--No delay is too long when the life of a man

is at stake. _Juv._

=Nulli jactantius mœrent, quam qui maxime

lætantur=--None mourn so demonstratively as

those who are in reality rejoicing most. _Tac._

=Nulli secundus=--Second to none.

=Nulli te facias nimis sodalem, / Gaudebis= 20

=minus et minus dolebis=--Be on too intimate

terms with no one; if your joy be less, so will

your grief. _Mart._

=Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri, /

Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deferor

hospes=--Bound to swear by the opinions of no

master, I present myself a guest wherever the

storm drives me. _Hor._

=Nullius boni sine socio jucunda possessio=--Without

a friend to share it, no good we possess

is truly enjoyable. _Sen._

=Nullius in verba=--At no man's dictation. _M._

=Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit

prius=--Nothing is said now that has not been

said before. _Ter._

=Nullum est malum majus, quam non posse= 25

=ferre malum=--There is no greater misfortune

than not to be able to endure misfortune.

=Nullum est sine nomine saxum=--Not a stone

but has a tale to tell. _Lucan._

=Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiæ

fuit=--No great genius is ever without

some tincture of madness. _Sen._

=Nullum magnum malum quod extremum est=--No

evil is great which is the last. _Corn. Nep._

=Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia=--Where

there is prudence, a protecting divinity is not

far away. _Pr._

=Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia; nos te /= 30

=Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam cœloque locamus=--Thou

hast no divine power, O Fortune, where

there is prudence; it is we who make a goddess

of thee, and place thee in heaven. _Juv._

=Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit=--There was

nothing he touched that he did not adorn. _Epitaph

by Johnson on Goldsmith._

=Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit=--No simile

runs on all fours, _i.e._, holds in every respect. _Pr._

=Nullum tempus occurrit regi=--No lapse of time

bars the rights of the crown. _L._

=Nullus argento color est, / Nisi temperato /

Splendeat usu=--Money has no splendour of its

own, unless it shines by temperate use. _Hor._

=Nullus commodum capere potest de injuria sua= 35

=propria=--No one can take advantage of wrong

committed by himself. _L._

=Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis

minuat ac molliat=--There is no sorrow

which length of time will not diminish and

soothe. _Cic._

=Nullus est liber tam malus, ut non aliqua parte

prosit=--There is no book so bad that it may not

be useful in some way or other. _Pliny._

=Numbers err in this: / Ten censure wrong for

one who writes amiss.= _Pope._

=Numerical inquiries will give you entertainment

in solitude by the practice, and reputation

in public by the effect.= _Johnson._

=Nunc animis opus, Ænea, nunc pectore firmo=--Now, 40

Æneas, you have need of courage, now

a resolute heart. _Virg._

=Nunc aut nunquam=--Now or never. _M._

=Nunc dimittis=--Now let me depart in peace. _See

Luke_ i. 29.

=Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero, / Pulsanda

tellus!=--Now let us drink; now let us

beat the ground with merry foot. _Hor._

=Nunc patimur longæ pacis mala; sævior armis

/ Luxuria incubuit, victumque ulciscitur

orbem=--Now we suffer the evils of long peace;

luxury more cruel than war broods over us and

avenges a conquered world. _Juv._

=Nunc positis novus exuviis nitidusque juventa=--Now, 45

all new, his slough cast off, and shining

in youth. _Virg._

=Nunc vino pellite curas!=--Now drive off your

cares with wine. _Hor._

=Nunquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit=--Nature

never says one thing and wisdom

another. _Juv._

=Nunquam erit alienis gravis, qui suis se concinnat

levem=--He will never be disagreeable to

others who makes himself agreeable to his own

relations. _Plaut._

=Nunquam est fidelis cum potente societas=--An

alliance with a powerful man is never safe. _Phædr._

=Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub= 50

=rege pio=--Liberty is never more enjoyable than

under a pious king. _Claud._

=Nunquam nimis dicitur, quod nunquam satis

discitur=--That is never too often repeated

which is never sufficiently learned. _Sen._

=Nunquam non paratus=--Never unprepared. _M._

=Nunquam retrorsum=--Never go back. _M._

=Nunquam se plus agere, quam nihil quum

ageret; nunquam minus solum esse, quam

quum solus esset=--He said he never had more

to do than when he had nothing to do, and never

was less alone than when alone. _Cic. quoting

Scipio Africanus._

=Nunquam vir æquus dives evasit cito=--No just

man ever became quickly rich. _Menander._

=Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love

perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth

and embaseth it.= _Bacon._

=Nur aus vollendeter Kraft blicket die Anmuth

hervor=--Only out of perfected faculty does grace

look forth. _Goethe._

=Nur das Gemeine / Verkennt man selten. Und= 5

=das Seltene / Vergisst man schwerlich=--Only

what is common we rarely mistake, and what is

rare we with difficulty forget. _Lessing._

=Nur das Leben hasst, der Tod versöhnt=--In life

alone is hatred; in death is reconciliation. _Tiedge._

=Nur das zu thun, was alle wollen, / Ist das

Geheimniss jeder Macht=--The secret of all

power is only to do that which all would fain

do. _Kinkel._

=Nur dem Fröhlichen blüht der Baum des

Lebens, / Dem Unschuldigen rinnt der Born

der Jugend / Auch noch im Alter=--Only for

the cheerful does the tree of life blossom, for the

innocent the well-spring of youth keeps still flowing

even in old age. _Arndt._

=Nur dem vertrau' ich völlig, nur der imponirt

nachhaltig, der über sich zu lächeln fähig

ist=--I trust only him perfectly, only he makes

a lasting impression on me, who is capable of

laughing at himself. _Feuchtersleben._

=Nur der Freundschaft Harmonie / Mildert die= 10

=Beschwerden; / Ohne ihre Sympathie / Ist

kein Glück auf Erden=--Nothing but the harmony

of friendship soothes our sorrows; without

its sympathy there is no happiness on earth.

_Mozart._

=Nur der Glaube aller stärkt den Glauben, /

Wo Tausende anbeten und verehren, / Da

wird die Glut zur Flamme, und beflügelt /

Schwingt sich der Geist in alle Himmel auf=--Only

the faith of all strengthens faith; where

thousands worship and reverence, there the glow

becomes flame, and the spirit soar upwards on

wings into all heavens. _Schiller._

=Nur der Irrthum ist das Leben, / Und das

Wissen ist der Tod=--Only error is life, and

knowledge is death. _Schiller._

=Nur der Irrthum ist unser Teil, und Wahn ist

unsre Wissenschaft=--Only error is our portion,

and illusion our knowledge. _Lessing._

=Nur der ist wahrhaft arm, der weder Geist

noch Kraft hat=--Only he is truly poor who is

without soul and without faculty. _Benzel-Sternan._

=Nur der Starke wird das Schicksal zwingen, /= 15

=Wenn der Schwächling untersinkt=--Only the

strong man will coerce destiny if the weakling

surrenders. _Schiller._

=Nur die Hoffenden leben=--Only the hoping live.

_Halm._

=Nur die Lumpe sind bescheiden, / Brave freuen

sich der That=--Only low-born fellows are

modest; men of spirit rejoice over their feats.

_Goethe._

=Nur eine Mutter weiss allein, / Was lieben

heisst und glücklich sein=--A mother alone

knows what it is to love and be happy. _Chamisso._

=Nur eine Schmach weiss ich auf dieser Erde. /

Und die heisst: Unrecht thun=--Only one disgrace

know I in this world, and that is doing

wrong. _Grillparzer._

=Nur eine Weisheit führt zum Ziele, / Doch= 20

=ihrer Sprüche giebt es viele=--Only one wisdom

leads to the goal, though the proverbs of it are

many. _Bodenstedt._

=Nur Helios vermag's zu sagen, / Der alles

Irdische bescheint=--Only Helios (the sun-god)

can tell, he sheds light on every earthly thing.

_Schiller._

=Nur immer zu! wir wollen es ergründen, / In

deinem Nichts hoff' ich das All zu finden=--Only

let us still go on! we will yet fathom it.

In thy nothing hope I to find the all. _Goethe._

=Nur in der eignen Kraft ruht das Schicksal

jeder Nation=--Only in its own power rests the

destiny of every nation. _Count v. Moltke, in_ 1880.

=Nur in der Schule selbst ist die eigentliche

Vorschule=--The true preparatory school is only

the school itself. _Goethe._

=Nur in schwülen Prüfungsstunden / Sprosst= 25

=die Palme, die den Sieger krönt=--Only in

the stifling hours of trial does the palm shoot

forth which decks the brow of the victor. _Salis-Seewis._

=Nur in Träumen wohnt das Glück der Erde=--Only

in dreams does the happiness of the earth

dwell. _Rückert._

=Nur Liebe darf der Liebe Blume brechen=--Only

love may break the flower of love. _Schiller._

=Nur stets zu sprechen, ohne was zu sagen, /

Das war von je der Redner grösste Gabe=--To

but speak on without saying anything has

ever been the greatest gift of the orator. _Platen._

=Nur vom Edeln kann das Edle stammen=--Only

from the noble soul can what is noble come.

_Schiller._

=Nur vom Nutzen wird die Welt regiert=--It is 30

only by show of advantage that the world is

governed. _Schiller._

=Nur was wir selber glauben, glaubt man uns=--People

give us credit only for what we ourselves

believe. _Gutzkow._

=Nur wer die Last wirklich selbst trägt, kennt

ihr Gewicht=--Only he who really bears the burden

knows its weight. _Klinger._

=Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt / Weiss, was

ich leide!=--Only he who knows what yearning

is knows what I suffer. _Goethe._

=Nur wer sich recht des Lebens freut, / Trägt

leichter, was es Schlimmes beut=--Only he

who enjoys life aright finds it easier to bear the

evils of it. _Bodenstedt._

=Nur wer vor Gott sich fühlet klein / Kann vor= 35

=den Menschen mächtig sein=--He only who

feels himself little in the eye of God can hope to

be mighty in the eyes of men. _Arndt._

=Nur zwei Tugenden giebt's. O, wären sie

immer vereinigt, / Immer die Güte auch

gross, immer die Grösse auch gut!=--There

are only two virtues, were they but always united:

goodness always also great, and greatness always

also good. _Schiller._

=Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.= _Burns._

=Nusquam tuta fides=--There is nowhere any true

honour. _Virg._

=Nutrimentum spiritus=--Nourishment for the

Spirit! _Inscription on the Royal Library at

Berlin._

=Nutritur vento, vento restinguitur ignis: /

Lenis alit flammas, grandior aura necat!=--Fire

is fed by the wind and extinguished by the

wind: a gentle current feeds it, too strong a one

puts it out! _Ovid._

=Nuts are given us, but we must crack them

ourselves.= _Pr._

=Nymph, in thy orisons / Be all my sins remembered.=

_Ham._, iii. 1.

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