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

Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eye 40 of man. Arab. Pr.

Nothing but ourselves can finally beat us. Carlyle.

Nothing can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. Steele.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. Ruskin.

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. Publius Syrus.

Nothing can be hostile to religion which is 45 agreeable to justice. Gladstone.

Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations. Sir J. Reynolds.

Nothing can be more fatal in politics than a preponderance of the philosophical, or in philosophy than a preponderance of the political, spirit. Lecky.

Nothing can be preserved but what is good. Emerson.

Nothing can be so injurious to progress as to be altogether blamed or altogether praised. Goethe.