Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Not a single shaft can hit / Till the God of love sees fit. Ryland.

Not a vanity is given in vain. Pope.

Not all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, / Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lines of rhyme, / Can blazon evil deeds or consecrate a crime. Byron.

Not all the water in the rough rude sea / Can wash the balm from an anointed king; / The breath of worldly men cannot depose / The deputy elected by the Lord. Rich. II., iii. 2.

Not alone to know, but to act according to 20 thy knowledge, is thy destination. Fichte.

Not as a vulture, but a dove, / The Holy Ghost came from above. Longfellow, after Fuller.

Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed. Sydney Smith.

Not brute force, but only persuasion and faith is the king of this world. Carlyle.

Not by levity of floating, but by stubborn force of swimming, shalt thou make thy way. A grand "vis inertiæ" in thee, Mr. Bull. Carlyle.

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, 25 saith the Lord. Bible.