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

There is no defence against reproach but obscurity. Addison.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Emerson.

There is no despair so absolute as that which 25 comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. George Eliot.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man. Owen Feltham.

There is no direr disaster in love than the death of imagination. George Meredith.

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion. Sherlock.

There is no disputing against hobby-horses. Sterne.

There is no education like adversity. Disraeli. 30

There is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning. Emerson.

There is no end of settlements; there will never be an end; the best settlement is but a temporary partial one. Carlyle.