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  • To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking. -- Alcaeus
  • Naught so sweet as melancholy. -- Robert A. Burton
  • Naught but God Can satisfy the soul. -- Philip James Bailey
  • Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting. -- Emma Lazarus
  • Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace. -- William Blake
  • Naught will be done to you that you doona wish done. Dageus MacKeltar -- Karen Marie Moning
  • Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time. -- Charles Godfrey Leland
  • All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds. -- Don DeLillo
  • Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational. -- Samuel Beckett
  • For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will there be whereunto to appeal On things occult when seeking aught to prove By reasonings of mind. -- Lucretius
  • Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e'er lies. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together. -- Ovid
  • Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way! -- Herman Melville
  • Who naught suspects is easily deceived. -- Petrarch
  • The deed is everything, the glory is naught. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. -- George Santayana
  • He who does not fear death cares naught for threats. -- Pierre Corneille
  • Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. -- Victoria Principal
  • There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. -- Lord Byron
  • If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. -- Robert Browning
  • Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? -- Ada Cambridge
  • Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. -- John James Audubon
  • O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay. -- Thomas Tusser
  • Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism. -- Charles Studd
  • A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught. -- William Butler Yeats
  • What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility. -- Steven Weber
  • Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. -- Moshe Dayan
  • For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels. -- Paul Anka
  • Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs. -- Jennifer Granholm
  • I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are. -- Rashida Jones
  • At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove. -- James Beattie
  • A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. -- Emma Orczy
  • One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught. -- Jeremy Grantham
  • Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? -- Clifford D. Simak
  • Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught. -- Jaron Lanier
  • It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary. -- Saint Basil
  • Lingering labors come to naught. -- Robert Southwell
  • Crime is naught but misdirected energy. -- Emma Goldman
  • The deed is everything, the glory is naught -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Give naught, get same. Give much, get same. -- Malcolm Forbes
  • Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face -- Juvenal
  • Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. -- Joseph Joubert
  • We're shadows! of naught;living, dying! for what's not. -- Fakeer Ishavardas
  • Too much to know is to know naught but fame. -- William Shakespeare
  • We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us. -- Dario Fo
  • We're shadows! of naught - living, dying! for what's not. -- Fakeer Ishavardas
  • All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. -- Khalil Gibran
  • To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma. -- Leonora Speyer
  • I know they are naught things, but I devour novels." (p. 57). -- Shannon Hale
  • The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart -- Jacqueline Carey
  • He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God. -- Saint John Chrysostom
  • O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change. -- James Russell Lowell
  • In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men. -- Khalil Gibran
  • He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. -- Torquato Tasso
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  • Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers. -- Kenneth Rand
  • If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught. -- Roxane Gay
  • There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. -- Mark Twain
  • Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught. -- Pawan Mishra
  • Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself. -- George Eliot
  • Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings! -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
  • Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost. -- Sophie Swetchine
  • O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls! -- Philip James Bailey
  • None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught. -- Edith Hamilton
  • For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught. -- Frank Sinatra
  • Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance. -- Robert Greene
  • Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others. -- Laini Taylor
  • Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning. -- Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
  • There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. -- William Shakespeare
  • Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure. -- Tobsha Learner
  • Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain. -- Vyasa
  • Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life. -- Edward Young
  • If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught! -- Bill Munson
  • Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field. -- Dogen
  • Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet. -- Vanna Bonta
  • Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing. -- Martin Luther
  • Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts. -- Walter Hilton
  • All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. -- Gamaliel
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  • For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure. -- James Whistler
  • Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! -- Marquis de Sade
  • Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. -- William Shakespeare
  • 30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness. -- Aleister Crowley
  • I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air. -- Lucretius
  • When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will. -- Susanna Kearsley
  • A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Will they remember us, Aravan? Will Mankind remember us at all?" ... Mayhap, Gwylly, mayhap. Mayhap in their legends and their fables. Mayhap in naught but their dreams. -- Dennis L. McKiernan
  • Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die. -- Alfred de Vigny
  • Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy! -- John Fletcher
  • Man's works do not even come close to the works of the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not work, all the efforts of man will come to naught. -- John Sung
  • FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said p/ "That definition's just."/ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ "Force is not might but must!" -- Ambrose Bierce
  • There scotsmen must have arses like leather,for while he ate I could see naught beneath his kilts but a pair of rather large balls , the secretary told him . - philippa -- Bertrice Small
  • Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods. -- Lucretius
  • Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long. -- Thomas Cogswell Upham
  • Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. -- William Shakespeare
  • True genius without heart is a thing of naught - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together make genius. Love! Love! Love! That is the soul of genius. -- Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
  • There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it. -- John Keats
  • Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust. -- Georges Bernanos
  • Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin! -- Frank Zappa
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