I never could believe that Providence had 5 sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. Richard Rumbold.
I never could tread a single pleasure under foot. Browning.
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. Carlyle.
I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his profession. Thackeray.
I never knew any man grow poor by keeping an orderly table. Lord Burleigh.
I never knew any man in my life who could 10 not bear another's misfortunes perfectly as a Christian. Pope.
I never saw, heard, or read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Swift.
I never whisper'd a private affair / Within the hearing of cat or mouse, / No, not to myself in the closet alone, / But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house; / Everything came to be known. Tennyson.
I only look straight before me at each day as it comes, and do what is nearest me, without looking further afield. Goethe.
I picciol cani trovano, ma i grandi hanno la lepre—The little dogs hunt out the hare, but the big ones catch it. It. Pr.