No house without mouse; no throne without thorn. Pr.
No human capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing; but we may see more and more of it the longer we look. Ruskin.
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. Ruskin.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a stain from the struggle of life. Renan.
No intellectual images are without use. Johnson. 35
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve. Carlyle.
"No" is a surly, honest fellow—speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. Scott.
No joy so great but runneth to an end; / No hap so hard but may in time amend. Robert Southwell.
No joy without alloy. Pr.
No knowledge is lost, but perfected, and 40 changed for much nobler, sweeter, greater knowledge. Baxter.