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 in pulling down, but in building up, does man find pure joy. Goethe.

Not in the achievement, but in the endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite God. Chapin.

Not kings alone—the people too have their flatterers. Mirabeau.

Not less in God's sight is the end of the day than the beginning. Gael. Pr.

Not liberty, but duty, is the condition of existence. 40 George Eliot.

Not lost, but gone before. Sen.

Not many words are needed to refuse; by the refused the "no" alone is heard. Goethe.

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme. Cymbeline. (?)

Not misgovernment, nor yet no government; only government will now serve. Carlyle.

Not once or twice in our rough island-story, / 45 The path of duty was the way to glory: / He that walks it, only thirsting / For the right, and learns to deaden / Love of self, before his journey closes / He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting / Into glossy purples, which outredden / All voluptuous garden-roses. Tennyson.