It is not quite so easy to do good as those may 15 imagine who never try. Rd. Sharp.
It is not so much our neighbour's interest as our own that we love him. Bp. Wilson.
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as the having overcome them, that is an advantage to us. Swift.
It is not strength, but art obtains the prize. Pope.
It is not the beard that makes the philosopher. Pr.
It is not the custom when a prince doth sneeze 20 to say, as to other persons, "God help you," but only to make a low reverence. Gerbier.
It is not the face which deceives; it is we who deceive ourselves in reading in it what is not there. Schopenhauer.
It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him. Dr. Caird.
It is not the fraud, but the cold-heartedness which is chiefly dreadful in treachery. Ruskin.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. Cobbett.