N Quotes
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“None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.”
“None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.”
Source: Aphorisms
“None are so likely to believe too little as those who have begun by believing too much.”
Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
“None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.”
Source: A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World
“None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them.”
Source: Steps to Christ—Illustrated
“None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.”
“None be obliged to remain inside me, rather my father”
“None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.”
“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”
“None but a fool or an infant could forget a father gone so far and cold. No. Lament is a pattern cut and fitted around my mind—like the bird who calls Itys! Itys! endlessly, bird of grief, angel of Zeus. O heartdragging Niobe, I count you a god: buried in rock yet always you weep.”
Source: Electra
“None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.”
“None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.”
“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”
Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way
“None but a woman can teach the science of herself.”
Source: The Novels of Jane Austen: The Text Based on Collation of the Early Editions
“None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.”
“None but blockheads copy each other.”
“None but God can fill the perfect whole.”
“None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.”
Source: notes of the parables of our lord
“None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover”
“None but God is wise.”
“None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.”
Source: All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ
“None but great men are capable of having great flaws.”
“None but himself can be his parallel.”
“None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man, and perhaps even a stranger.”
“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
“None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists who will set the saints to this business of praying. We are not a generation of praying saints. Who will restore this breach? The greatest will he be of reformers who can set the Church to praying.”
“None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office
“None but the brave and beautiful can love.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“None but the brave can live with the fair.”
“None but the brave deserve the fair.”
“None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.”
“None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.”
“None but the dead have free speech.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.”
Source: The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources
“None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.”
“None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.”
“None but the lark so shrill and clear;
Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,
The morn not waking till she sings.”
Source: John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work
“None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.”
Source: The Moving Toyshop
“none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.”
“None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.”
“None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.”
“None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.”
Source: Frankenstein
“None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most specious rhetorician that the lots of life are equal; yet it cannot be denied that every one has his peculiar pleasures and vexations, that external accidents operate variously upon different minds, and that no man can exactly judge from his own sensations what another would feel in the same circumstances.”
Source: The Rambler