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“Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.”
Source: Treasury of David
“Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blast of adversity.”
Source: The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author
“Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.”
Source: Fantomina and Other Works
“Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book
“Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.”
Source: Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady : Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life; and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage
“Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.”
Source: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
“Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.”
“Nothing can be produced out of nothing.”
“Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.”
Source: The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character
“Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.”
“Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.”
Source: The Reformed Pastor ... Revised and Abridged by the Rev. William Brown ... With an Introductory Essay, by the Rev. Daniel Wilson. [With a Portrait.]
“Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!”
“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.”
“Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before.”
Source: The City of Falling Angels
“Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.”
Source: The Wrench
“Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.”
“Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.”
“Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.”
“Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.”
“Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.”
“Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.”
“Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“Nothing can be truly great which is not right.”
“Nothing can be truly infinite at a single point in time, as it would have taken an infinite amount of time to have arisen; something may however, have infinite potential”
“Nothing can be worse than being unfaithful to what your heart bids you to do. It is the only failure.”
“Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude.”
Source: The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ
“Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.”
“Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."... Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?”
“Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.”
Source: The Quotable Billy Graham
“Nothing can bring down a woman comfortable in her own skin. She knows her worth and what she wants.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Nothing can bring down a woman comfortable in her skin. She is genuine and never pretends to be who she is not. She knows her worth and what she wants.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Nothing can bring down a woman who is comfortable in her skin. She is genuine and never pretends to be someone she is not. She knows her worth and what she wants.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
“Nothing can burst your fatherly bubble faster than hearing your daughter come home from a date and saying: 'Some nights I don't know why I even bother to wear panties'.”
“Nothing can change the way I feel about you. I wish it could.”
“Nothing can change unless our body and mind are playing on the same team.”
Source: Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety
“Nothing can change what happened. Nothing's going to change his nature. But we can control our futures - that's what we must focus on.”
Source: The Glittering Court
“Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.”
Source: The Secret
“Nothing can come of nothing.”
Source: King Lear
“Nothing can come of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.”
“Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.”
“Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way you think it should be made, pure creative freedom, purity of intention, with no boundaries.”
Source: Black Science #1
“Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.”
“Nothing can compare with the time spent with God”
“Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.”