It is not history which educates the conscience; 5 it is conscience which educates history. Amiel.
It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. Bible.
It is not juggling that is to be blamed, but much juggling; for the world cannot be governed without it. Selden.
It is not lost that comes at last. Pr.
It is not merely by virtue of the sunlight that falls now, and the rain and dew which it brings, that we continue here, but by virtue of the sunlight of æons of past ages. John Burroughs.
It is not metre, but metre-making agreement 10 that makes a poem, a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architect of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. Emerson.
It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Pope.
It is not possible to buy obedience with money. Carlyle.
It is not proper to place confidence in one who cometh without any apparent cause. Hitopadesa.
It is not propositions, not new dogmas and a logical exposition of the world, that are our first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and moral sensibilities, those fountains of right thought, and woo them to stay and make their home with us. Emerson.