N Quotes
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“No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.”
“No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“No man does anything from a single motive.”
“No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.”
“No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
“No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.”
Source: Satiric Poems: The Progress of Dulness and M'Fingal
“No man easily admits that he is afraid.”
Source: The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again
“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions
about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when our
appointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.”
Source: The Secret Agent
“No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.”
“No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.”
“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.”
Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams
“No man ever became very wicked all at once.”
“No man ever became wise by chance.”
“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.”
“No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.”
Source: Thoughts on religion
“No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
“No man ever did me so much good, or enemy so much harm, but I repaid him with interest.”
“No man ever did or can do a great work alone.”
Source: Little journeys to the homes of eminent artists
“No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.... I know no other True Sender, but the most Holy Spirit.”
Source: On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams
“No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.”
Source: Tales of Fashionable Life: The absentee, ch. 6-17
“No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.”
“No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.”
Source: SORMONS ON BIBLICAL CHARACTERS
“No man ever got lost on a straight road.”
“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”
“No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.”
“No man ever listened himself out of a job.”
“No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.”
Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.”
Source: The Quotable Billy Graham
“No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.”
“No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38
“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838
“No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.”
Source: Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses
“No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.”
“No man ever quite believes in any other man.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.”
Source: The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River
“No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.”
“No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.”
“No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.”
Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life
“No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.”
Source: Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood
“No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.”
Source: Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-
“No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign
capitals and in foreign centres of commerce.”
Source: Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-
“No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.”
“No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”
Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
“No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.”
“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”
Source: Essays & Miscellanies...