Dictionary of Quotations

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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.

No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself. Ward Beecher.

No man is the wiser for his learning.... Wit 20 and wisdom are born with a man. Selden.

No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself. Pr.

No man is to be deemed free who has not perfect self-command. Pythagoras.

No man is wise enough or good enough to be intrusted with unlimited power. Colton.

No man is wise or safe but be that is honest. Sir W. Raleigh.

No man is without enemies. Arab. Pr. 25

No man is without his load of trouble. Thomas à Kempis.

No man lives so poor as he was born. Pr.

No man loves to frustrate expectations which have been formed in his favour. Johnson.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold. Pr.

No man needs money so much as he who 30 despises it. Jean Paul.

No man needs to study history to find out what is best for his own culture. Thoreau.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Phillips Brooks.

No man perhaps suspects how large and important the region of unconsciousness in him is; what a vast, unknown territory lies there back of his conscious will and purpose, and which is really the controlling power of his life. John Burroughs.

No man praises happiness as he would justice, but calls it blessed, as being something more divine and excellent. Arist.

No man regards an eruption upon the surface 35 when the noble parts are invaded, and he feels a mortification approaching to his heart. Junius.

"No man," said Pestalozzi, "in God's wide universe, is either willing or able to help any other man." Help must come from the bosom alone. Emerson.

No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses. Carlyle.

No man should be so much taken up in the search of truth, as thereby to neglect the more necessary duties of active life. Cic.

No man should enter into alliance with his enemy, even with the tightest bonds of union. Water made ever so hot will still quench fire. Hitopadesa.

No man should ever be ashamed to own he 40 has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. Pope.

No man should ever display his bravery who is unprepared for battle; nor bear the marks of defiance, until he hath experienced the abilities of his enemy. Hitopadesa.

No man should form an acquaintance, nor enter into any amusements, with one of an evil character. A piece of charcoal, if it be hot, burneth; and if it be cold, blackeneth the hand. Hitopadesa.

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another. Channing.

No man should strive to precede his fellows; for, should the work succeed, the booty is equal, and if it fail, the leader is punished. Hitopadesa.

No man should think so highly of himself as 45 to think he can receive but little light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them. Johnson.

No man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed. Johnson.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. Goethe.

No man troubleth the beggar with questioning his religion or politics. Lamb.

No man was ever as rich as all men ought to be. Old saying.

No man was ever scolded out of his sins. 50 Cowper.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. Lord Greville.

No man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. Monk.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. Johnson, of Goldsmith.

No man whatever believes, or can believe, exactly what his grandfather believed. Carlyle.

No man who does not choose, enter into and 5 walk in some narrow way of life, will ever have any moral character, any clearness of purpose, any wisdom of intelligence, or any tenderness or strength of heart. Ed.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Carlyle.

No man who is wretched in his own heart and feeble in his own work can rightly help others. Ruskin.

No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. Hawthorne.

No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man. Johnson.

No man's pie is freed / From his ambitious 10 finger. Hen. VIII., i. 1.

No man's religion ever survives his morals. South.

No mata la carga sino la sobrecarga—Not the load, but the overload kills. Sp. Pr.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Emerson.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and happiest of the children of men. J. A. Langford.

No might nor greatness in mortality / Can censure 15 'scape; back-wounding calumny / The whitest virtue strikes. Meas. for Meas., iii. 2.

No mill, no meal. Pr.

No more can you distinguish of a man / Than of his outward show; which, God he knows, / Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart. Rich. III., iii. 1.

No more dangerous snare is set by the fiends for human frailty than the belief that our enemies are also the enemies of God. Ruskin.

No more of your titled acquaintances boast, / And in what lordly circles you've been: / An insect is still but an insect at most, / Though it crawl on the head of a queen. Burns.

No more subtle master under heaven / Than 20 is the maiden-passion for a maid, / Not only to keep down the base in man, / But teach high thought, and amiable words / And courtliness, and the desire of fame, / And love of truth, and all that makes a man. Tennyson.

No morning can restore what we have forfeited. George Meredith.

No mortal can both work and do good talking in Parliament or out of it; the feat is impossible as that of serving two hostile masters. Carlyle.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something. Carlyle.

No mortal's endeavour or attainment will, in the smallest, content the as unendeavouring, unattaining young gentleman; but he could make it all infinitely better, were it worthy of him. Carlyle.

No mother worthy of the name ever gave herself 25 thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown. Beecher.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life. J. G. Holland.

No nation can bear wealth that is not intelligent first. Ward Beecher.

No nation can reform itself, as the English are now trying to do, by what their newspapers call "tremendous cheers." Reform is not joyous, but grievous; no single man can reform himself without stern suffering and stern working; how much less can a nation of men! Medea, when she made men young again, was wont to hew them in pieces with meat-axes; cast them into caldrons, and boil them for a length of time. How much handier could they have but done it by "tremendous cheers" alone! Carlyle.

No need to teach your grandames to suck eggs. Pr.

No news is good news. Pr. 30

No, no! I am but shadow of myself; / You are deceived, my substance is not here. 1 Hen. VI., ii. 3.

No noble task was ever easy. Carlyle.

No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. Carlyle.

No, not even faith, or hope, or any other virtue, is accepted by God without charity and grace. Thomas à Kempis.

No oath that binds to wrong can ever bind. 35 Dr. Walter Smith.

No one can bake cakes for the whole world. Serv. Pr.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise that, as a thinker, it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. J. S. Mill.

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. Sen.

No one can be in perfect accord with any one but himself. Schopenhauer.

No one can feel and exercise benevolence towards 40 another who is ill at ease with himself. Goethe.

No one can find himself in himself or others; in fact, he has himself to spin, from the centre of which he exercises his influence. Goethe.

No one can obtain what he does not bring with him. Goethe.

No one can teach religion who has it not. Jean Paul.

No one can teach you anything worth learning but through manual labour; the very bread of life can only be got out of the chaff of it by rubbing it in your hands. Ruskin.

No one claims kindred with the poor. Pr. 45

No one easily arrives at the conclusion that reason and a brave will are given us that we may not only hold back from evil, but also from the extreme of good. Goethe.

No one eats goldfish. Pr.

No one ever impoverished himself by almsgiving. It. Pr.

No one ever possessed superior intellectual qualities without knowing them. Bulwer.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, 50 or governs well who wants to govern. Plato.

No one falls low unless he attempt to climb high. Dan. Pr.

No one gets into trouble without his own help. Dan. Pr.

No one has ever learned fully to know himself. Goethe.

No one has ever yet succeeded in deceiving the whole world, nor has the world ever combined to deceive any individual. (?)

No one has seen to-morrow. Port. Pr. 5

No one is a slave whose will is free. Tyrius Maximus.

No one is by nature noble, respected of any one, nor a wretch. His own actions conduct him either to wretchedness or to the reverse. Hitopadesa.

No one is free who is not master of himself. Claudius.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. Jean Paul.

No one is qualified to converse in public who is 10 not highly contented without such conversation. Thomas à Kempis.

No one is qualified to entertain, or receive entertainment from others, who cannot entertain himself alone with satisfaction. Thomas à Kempis.

No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour. Dan. Pr.

No one is so hardy as to say God is in his debt, that he owed him a nobler being, for existence must be antecedent to merit. Jeremy Collier.

No one knows how far his powers go till he has tried. Goethe.

No one knows the weight of another's burden. 15 Pr.

No one knows what he is doing while he is acting rightly, but of what is wrong we are always conscious. Goethe.

No one knows when he is well off. Punch.

No one knows where the shoe pinches but him who wears it. Pr.

No one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Plato.

No one likes to bell the cat. Pr. 20

No one shall look for effectual help to another; but each shall rest content with what help he can afford himself. Carlyle.

No one will become anything, every one will already be something. Goethe.

No one would respect thee in a beggar's coat. What is the respect paid to woollen cloth, not to thee? Jean Paul.

No one would talk much in society if he only knew how often he misunderstands others. Goethe.

No orator can measure in effect with him who 25 can give good nicknames. Emerson.

No order or profession of men is so sacred, no place so remote or solitary, but that temptations and troubles will find them out and intrude upon them. Thomas à Kempis.

No outward tyranny can reach the mind. Junius.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden so well as her own reserve. Cervantes.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. William Penn.

No pains, no gains. Pr. 30

No passions are without their use, none without their nobleness, when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend. Ruskin.

No patient will ever recover his health merely from the description of a medicine. Hitopadesa.

No pay is receivable by any true man; but power is receivable by him in the love and faith you give him. Ruskin.

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin—victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts. Ruskin.

No penny, no paternoster. Pr. 35

No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion. They do not feel responsible for it; it lies far outside of them. Emerson.

No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines. La Roche.

No pillow so soft as God's promise. Saying.

No pin's point can you mark within the wide circle of the All where God's laws are not. Carlyle.

No place, no company, no age, no person is 40 temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted; let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all. Spencer.

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. Emerson.

No power of good can be obtained by doing nothing and by knowing nothing. Johnson.

No prayer, no religion, or at least only a dumb and lame one. Carlyle.

No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. Henry Giles.

No productiveness of the highest kind, no remarkable 45 discovery, no great thought which bears fruit and has results, is in the power of any one; such things are exalted above all earthly control. Man must consider them as an unexpected gift from above, as pure children of God, which he must receive and venerate with joyful thanks,... as a vessel found worthy for the reception of such divine influence. Goethe.

No profit canst thou gain / By self-consuming care. Wesley.

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en: / In brief, sir, study what you most affect. Tam. the Shrew, i. 1.

No property is eternal but God the Maker's: Whom Heaven permits to take possession, his is the right; Heaven's sanction is such permission—while it lasts. Carlyle.

No real happiness is found / In trailing purple o'er the ground. Parnell.

No really great man ever thought himself so. 50 Hazlitt.

No receiver, no thief. Pr.

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

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

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. Jean Paul.

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

No road is long with good company. Turk. Pr.

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

No safe wading in an unknown water. Pr.

No sensible person ever made an apology. Emerson.

No si puo volar senza ale—He would fain fly, but he wants wings. It. Pr.

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

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

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

No smaller spirit can vanquish a greater. Goethe.

No smoke, in any sense, but can become flame and radiance. Carlyle.

No society can be upheld in happiness and honour without the sentiment of religion. Laplace.

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

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

No sound is dissonant which tells of life. Coleridge.

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

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

No stronger castle than a poor man's. Serv. Pr. 20

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

No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue. Sir P. Sydney.

No tale so good but may be spoiled in the telling. Pr.

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

No theatre for virtue is equal to the consciousness 25 of it. Cic.

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

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. Landor.

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

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

No trial is dangerous which there is courage 30 to meet. Goethe.

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

No truly great man ever founded, wilfully intended founding, a sect. Carlyle.

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

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

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

No vice goes alone. Pr.

No victory worth having was ever won without cost. Ruskin.

No violent extreme endures. Carlyle.

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

No weather's ill when the wind's still. Pr. 40

No weeping for shed milk. Pr.

No whip cuts so sharply as the lash of conscience. Pr.

No wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. Swift.

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

No wind is of service to him who is bound for 45 nowhere. Fr. Pr.

No wise combatant underrates his antagonist. Goethe.

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

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

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

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

No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family. Burnap.

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

No woman shall succeed in Salique land. Hen. V., i. 2.

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

No wonder lasts over three days. Pr. 55

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

No word is ill spoken if it be not ill taken. Pr.

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

No work, no recompense. Pr.

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

No worth, known or unknown, can die even on this earth. Carlyle.

Nobilitatis virtus non stemma character—Virtue, not pedigree, should characterise nobility. M.

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

Nobility of nature consists in doing good for the good's sake. Wm. v. Humboldt.

Nobility without virtue is a fine setting without 10 a gem. Jane Porter.

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

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

Noble housekeepers need no doors. Pr.

Noble spirits war not with the dead. Byron.

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

Noblesse oblige—Rank imposes obligation. M.

Nobody calls himself rogue. Pr.

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

Nobody can find work easy if much work do lie in him. Carlyle.

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

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

Nobody has a right to have opinions, but only knowledge. Ruskin.

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

Nobody should be rich but those who understand it. Goethe.

Nobody will persist long in helping those who 25 will not help themselves. Johnson.

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

Nobody would be afraid if he could help it. Smollett.

Noces de Gamache—A very sumptuous repast. Fr.

Nocet empta dolore voluptas—Pleasure purchased by pain is injurious. Hor.

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

Noch lebt ein Gott, der meines Elends denkt!—A God still lives who thinks of my misery. Chamisso.

Noch niemand entfloh dem verhängten Geschick—No one has yet evaded the fate allotted to him. Schiller.

Noctemque diemque fatigat—He wears out both night and day at his work. Virg.

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

Nodum in scirpo quæris—You look for a knot in 35 a bulrush, i.e., are too scrupulous. Pr.

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

Nolens volens—Whether one will or no.

Noli irritare leones—Don't irritate lions. M.

Noli me tangere—Touch me not.

Nolle prosequi—To be unwilling to prosecute. L. 40

Nolo barbam vellere mortuo leoni—I won't pluck the beard of a dead lion. Mart.

Nolo episcopari—I have no wish to be made a bishop. Applied to an affected indifference to obtaining what one really desires.

Nom de guerre—An assumed name. Fr.

Nom de plume—Assumed name of an author. Fr.

Nomen amicitia est; nomen inane fides—Friendship 45 is but a name; fidelity but an empty name. Ovid.

Nomen atque omen—A name and at the same time an omen. Plaut.

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

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

Non ætate verum ingenio adipiscitur sapientia—Wisdom is not attained with years, but by ability. Plaut.

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

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

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

Non aqua, sed ruina—Not with water, but with ruin.

Non assumpsit—He did not assume. L.

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

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

Non bene junctarum discordia semina rerum—The discordant seeds of things ill joined. Ovid.

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

Non ci è fumo senza fuoco—There is no smoke without fire. It. Pr.

Non compos mentis—Not sound in mind.

Non constat—This does not appear. L. 5

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

Non credo tempori—I trust not to time. M.

Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum—Not every man is gifted with a nose, i.e., has the power of keen discernment. Mart.

Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum—It is not every man that can get to Corinth, i.e., rise in the world. Hor.

Non decipitur qui scit se decipi—He is not 10 deceived who is knowingly deceived. L.

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

Non deficit alter—Another is not wanting. Virg.

Non destare il can che dorme—Do not wake a sleeping dog. It. Pr.

Non è in alcun luogo chi è per tutto—He is nowhere who is everywhere. It. Pr.

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

Non è uomo chi non sa dir di nò—He's no man who can't say "No." It. Pr.

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

Non eadem est ætas, non mens—My age is no longer the same, nor my inclination. Hor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Non ego ventosæ venor suffragia plebis—I do 25 not hunt after the suffrages of the fickle multitude. Hor.

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

Non equidem invideo, miror magis—In sooth I feel no envy, I am surprised rather. Virg.

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

Non erat his locus—This was out of place here. Hor.

Non esse cupidum pecunia est: non esse 30 emacem vectigal est—Not to be covetous is money: not to be extravagant is an estate. Cic.

Non est ad astra mollis a terris via—The road from the earth to the stars is not a soft one. Sen.

Non est bonum ludere cum Diis—It is not good to trifle with the gods. Pr.

Non est de pastu omnium quæstio, sed de lana—It is a matter not of feeding the sheep, but fleecing them (lit. of wool). Pius II.

Non est de sacco tanta farina tuo—So much meal cannot have come from your own sack. Pr.

Non est ejusdem et multa et opportuna dicere—The 35 same person will not both talk much and to the purpose. Pr.

Non est jocus esse malignum—There is no joking where there is spite. Hor.

Non est nostri ingenii—It is not within my range of ability. Cic.

Non est vivere, sed valere, vita—Not to live, but to be healthy is life. Mart.

Non exercitus, neque thesauri, præsidia regni sunt, verum amici—Neither armies nor treasures are the safeguards of a state, but friends. Sall.

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

Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem—Not to educe smoke from splendour, but light from smoke. M.

Non generant aquilæ columbas—Eagles do not beget doves. M.

Non giudicar la nave stando in terra—Don't judge of the ship from the shore. It. Pr.

Non hæc sine numine—These things are not without sanction of the Deity. M.

Non han speranza di morte—They have not 45 hope to die. Dante.

Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula poscit—The present moment is not one to indulge in spectacles of this kind. Virg.

Non hominis culpa, sed ista loci—It is not the fault of the man, but of the place. Ovid.

Non id quod magnum est pulchrum est, sed id quod pulchrum magnum—Not that which is great is noble (lit. beautiful), but that which is noble is great.

Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco. See "Haud ignara."

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

Non immemor beneficii—Not unmindful of kindness. M.

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

Non intelligitur quando obrepit senectus—We do not perceive old age, seeing it creeps on apace. Cic.

Non intelligunt homines quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia—Men do not understand what a great revenue economy is. Cic.

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

Non liquet—It is not clear. L. 5

Non magni pendis, quia contigit—You do not value it highly because it has been your lot. Hor.

Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam—I am not ashamed to confess myself ignorant of what I do not know. Cic.

Non mihi sapit qui sermone, sed qui factis sapit—Not he who is wise in speech, but he who is wise in deeds is wise for me. Greg. Agrigent.

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

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

Non multa, sed multum—Not many things, but much.

Non nobis, Domine—Not unto us, O Lord.

Non nobis solum nati sumus—We are born not for ourselves alone. Cic.

Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites—It is not for me to settle such a dispute. Virg.

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.