Nothing exposes us more to madness than 20 distinguishing ourselves from others, and nothing more contributes to maintain our common-sense than living in community of feeling with other people. Goethe.
Nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in malice; then must you speak / Of one, that loved not wisely, but too well ... of one, whose hand / Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away, / Richer than all his tribe. Othello, v. 2.
Nothing for nothing. Pr.
Nothing for nothing, and very little for a halfpenny. Pr.
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after. Hazlitt.
Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The 25 lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him to prepare the world for his coming. Hare.
Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost; / Every good deed nobly done will repay the cost. (?)
Nothing hath got so far / But man hath caught and kept it as his prey; / His eyes dismount the highest star; / He is in little all the sphere. George Herbert.
Nothing hitherto was ever stranded, cast aside; but all, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all; is borne forward on the bottomless, shoreless flood of action, and lives through perpetual metamorphoses. Carlyle.
Nothing in haste save catching fleas. Dut. Pr.