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“Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .”
Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials
“Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.”
“Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds, Nor waves, nor winds.”
Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man
“Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.”
“Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.”
Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...
“Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.”
“nor had he, then, lost his upper class arrogance, the innate conviction that it could not be serious - such things just don't happen, not to people one knows!”
Source: The Green Hills of Earth
“Nor had I any illusions about Algernon Charles Swinburne, who often used to stop my perambulator when he met it on Nurses’ Walk, at the edge of Wimbledon Common, and pat me on the head and kiss me: he was an inveterate pram-stopper and patter and kisser.”
Source: Goodbye To All That
“Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.”
“Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.”
“Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.”
“Nor have I any idea why Said should consider Orwell’s life a ‘comfortable’ one. Having taken a bullet through the throat, and while suffering from a demoralising and ultimately lethal case of TB, he lived on an astonishingly low budget and tried whenever possible to grow his own food and even to make his own furniture. Indeed, if there was anything affected about him, it might be his indifference to bourgeois life, his almost ostentatious austerity.”
“Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.”
“Nor, if the succession of events exercises a charm, is unpredictability by any means the least part of it. When a forecast is made, no matter what it may be, it is always tempting to prove it wrong. Events themselves often help us out in this regard. There are overpredicted events, for instance, that obligingly decline to occur; and then there are the exactly opposite kind - those which occur without forewarning. It behoves us to bank on such conjunctural surprises - such 'backdraughts'. We must bet on the Witz of events themselves. If we lose, at least we shall have had the satisfaction of defying the objective idiocy of the probabilities. This obligation is a vital function - part of our collective genetic heritage. Indeed, this is the only genuine function of the intellect: to embrace contradictions, to exercise irony, to take the opposite tack, to exploit rifts and reversibility - even to fly in the face of the lawful and the factual. If the intellectuals of today seem to have run out of things to say, this is because they have failed to assume this ironic function, confining themselves within the limits of their moral, political or philosophical consciousness despite the fact that the rules have changed, that all irony, all radical criticism now belongs exclusively to the haphazard, the viral, the catastrophic - to
accidental or system-led reversals. Such are the new rules of the game - such is the new principle of uncertainty that now holds sway over all. [...]”
Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“Nor in the critic let the man be lost.”
Source: An Essay on Criticism
“Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?”
Source: Tablets
“Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a spirit of encroachment and aggression, by humiliations which nourish their pride, or by concessions that extend their resources and power.”
Source: James Madison's
“Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.”
Source: Plutarch's Complete Works
“Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.”
Source: Whitney, My Love
“Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.”
“Nor is heaven always at peace.”
“Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.”
“Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.”
Source: New Experiments and Observations on Electricity. Made at Philadelphia in America. By Benjamin Franklin Esq., and communicated in several letters to Peter Collinson, Esq. Part 1. The third edition
“Nor is it only as a sign of greater gentleness or refinement of mind, but as a proof of the best possible direction of this refinement, that the tendency of the Gothic to the expression of vegetative life is to be admired. That sentence of Genesis, 'I have given thee every green herb for meat,' like all the rest of the book, has a profound symbolical as well as literal meaning. It is not merely the nourishment of the body, but the food of the soul, that is intended. The green herb is, of all nature, that which is most essential to the healthy spiritual life of man. Most of us do not need fine scenery; the precipice and the mountain peak are not intended to be seen by all men, — perhaps their power is greatest. over those who are unaccustomed to them. But trees and fields and flowers were made for all, and are necessary for all. God has connected the labour which is essential to the bodily sustenance with the pleasures which are healthiest for the heart; and while He made the ground stubborn, He made its herbage fragrant, and its blossoms fair. The proudest architecture that man can build has no higher honour than to bear the image and recall the memory of that grass of the field which is, at once, the type and the support of his existence; the goodly building is then most glorious when it is sculptured into the likeness of the leaves of Paradise; and the great Gothic spirit, as we showed it to be noble in its disquietude, is also noble in its hold of nature; it is, indeed, like the dove of Noah, in that she found no rest upon the face of the waters, — but like her in this also, 'Lo, in her mouth was an olive branch, plucked off.”
Source: On Art and Life
“Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same”
“Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.”
“Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class Christian ways, and who leave the sub-middle-class sections of the community, Christian and non-Christian, to get on by themselves.
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor - spending and being spent - to enrich their fellowmen, giving time, trouble, care and concern to do good to others - and not just their own friends - in whatever way there seems need.”
Source: Knowing God
“Nor is it wise to entrust our schools to inexperienced teachers, principals, and superintendents. Education is too important to relinquish to the vagaries of the market and the good intentions of amateurs.
American education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it is threatening to destroy public education. Who will stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?”
Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
“Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things”
Source: The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces
“Nor is the darkness of colour a proof of the earth's baseness; for the brightness of the sun, which is visible to us, would not be perceived by anyone who might be in the sun.”
“Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A tyrant does not make his tyranny possible. It is made by the people and not otherwise.”
“Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Nor is the world a stage or a prison. Simply, because there is no difference between the prisoner and the individual who is about to go on stage; they have no idea what to expect there. Both suffer from the disease of expectation.”
“Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.”
“Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.”
Source: Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost
“Nor is this really so strange when one recalls how much of each of us is imagined by the other, how we create one another even as we actually speak and actually touch.”
Source: Two-Way Mirror: A double bill of Elegy for a Lady and Some Kind of Love Story
“Nor is this uncommon, as Mervyn will tell you if you ask him. He has seen all of it before many times, including the curious pull that a corpse exerts, drawing people towards it. By tomorrow already this will have changed, the body will be long gone and its permenent absence covered over with plans, arrangements, reiminiscences and time. Yes, already. The disappearance begins immediately and in a certain sense never ends.
But in the mean time there is the body, the horrible meaty fact of it [..] Fortunately she isn't heavy, the sickness hollowed her out, and it's easy to get her down the stairs and around the challenging angle at the bottom and along the passage to the kitchen.”
Source: The Promise
“Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.”
Source: Milton's Paradise Lost illustrated with Texts of Scripture, by John Gillies ... Second edition, with additions. (The Life of Mr. John Milton [by Elijah Fenton].).
“Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.”
“Nor less I deem that there are Powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention.
[Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]”
“Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.”
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“Nor love they least
Who strike with right good will
To vanquish ill
And fight God's battle upward from the beast.”
Source: Along the Trail
“Nor love thy Life, nor hate; but what thou livst
Live well, how long or short permit to Heav'n:
And now prepare thee for another sight.”
Source: Paradise lost
“Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest,
Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.”
“Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work
“Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.”
Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches
“Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.”