No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. Henry Giles.
No productiveness of the highest kind, no remarkable 45 discovery, no great thought which bears fruit and has results, is in the power of any one; such things are exalted above all earthly control. Man must consider them as an unexpected gift from above, as pure children of God, which he must receive and venerate with joyful thanks, ... as a vessel found worthy for the reception of such divine influence. Goethe.
No profit canst thou gain / By self-consuming care. Wesley.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en: / In brief, sir, study what you most affect. Tam. the Shrew, i. 1.
No property is eternal but God the Maker's: Whom Heaven permits to take possession, his is the right; Heaven's sanction is such permission—while it lasts. Carlyle.
No real happiness is found / In trailing purple o'er the ground. Parnell.
No really great man ever thought himself so. 50 Hazlitt.
No receiver, no thief. Pr.
No reckoning made, but sent to my account / With all my imperfections on my head. Ham., i. 5.
No reports are more readily believed than those which disparage genius and soothe envy of conscious mediocrity. Macaulay.