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  • Think nothing done while aught remains to do. -- Samuel Rogers
  • It must be sad to outlive aught we love. -- George Eliot
  • Life is too short for aught but high endeavor. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. -- Lord Byron
  • 'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy! -- Robert Burns
  • It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise. -- Homer
  • Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice. -- William Shakespeare
  • If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself. -- John Milton
  • The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth. -- Richard Chenevix Trench
  • Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse. -- William Shakespeare
  • Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason. -- Gelett Burgess
  • Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit. -- John Milton
  • No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. -- John Milton
  • Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
  • One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take. -- Havelock Ellis
  • No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. -- Kahlil Gibran
  • If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with. -- Cormac McCarthy
  • If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever. -- George Berkeley
  • Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. -- Herman Melville
  • If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts. -- Khalil Gibran
  • I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position. -- Laurence Sterne
  • The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom. -- Jeremy Bentham
  • Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare
  • the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • ...Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down. -- Lucretius
  • If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet. -- Herman Melville
  • The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. -- Bertrand Russell
  • if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. -- John Stuart Mill
  • Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato. -- Jonathan Swift
  • There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. -- John Milton
  • If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were. -- Sir John Davies
  • Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell. -- John Milton
  • A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
  • Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side. -- Sir John Davies
  • Ay me! For aught that I could every read,Could ever hear by tale or history,The course of true love never did run smooth, But either it was different in blood- -- William Shakespeare
  • The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer. -- John Milton
  • Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise. -- John Milton
  • Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me. -- Cassandra Clare
  • They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
  • If aught must be lost, â??twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, â??twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, â??twill be my life for yours. I am Given. -- Karen Marie Moning
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