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“Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not." -Beatrix Whittaker”
Source: The Signature of All Things
“Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.”
Source: The Signature of All Things
“Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.”
“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”
Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
Source: The Letters of William James
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.”
“Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.”
“Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.”
“Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.”
“Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.”
Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis
“Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.”
“Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks.”
Source: Spiritual Direction: A Guide to Giving and Receiving Direction
“Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.”
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”
Source: Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition
“Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.”
“Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.”
“Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.”
“Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.”
“Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.”
“Nothing is so healing as the human touch.”
“Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.”
Source: On Love
“Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God.
[Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit
Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]”
“nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.”
“Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.”
Source: An Egyptian Journal
“Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.”
“Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.”
“Nothing is so infectious as example.”
Source: Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.
“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.”
“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”
“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.”
“Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.”
“Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.”
Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One
“Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.”
“Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.”
“Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.”
Source: The student's manual: designed
“Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.”
“Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.”
“Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.”
Source: Clock Without Hands