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No power can die that ever wrought for truth.

-LOWELL. No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.-LANDON.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. -CHARLES SUMNER.

"Nobody ever wants t' get on an empty band wagon, an' ev'rybody wants t' get off the one th't's crowded." None ever was a great poet that applied himself much to anything else.-SIR W. TEMPLE.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

-LONGFELLOW.

Not only strike when the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.-CROMWELL.

Not what we think or say, but what we do, will have its effect upon the world.-ROBERT ROY MCNULTY. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. -EMERSON.

Nothing is impossible to the man who can will.

-MIRABEAU.

Nothing is more terrible than active ignorance.

-GOETHE.

Nothing is more universal than hope, for those have hope who have nothing else in the world.-THALES. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

-GEORGE ELIOT.

Nothing is so successful as success.-TALLEYRAND. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and the longitudes.-THOREAU.

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with a half mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. -BARROW.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.-PAUL.

"Oblige and you will be obliged."

Obstacles are great incentives.—MICHELET.

Of all virtues, cheerfulness is the most profitable.

-O. S. MARDEN.

Oft from apparent ill, our blessings rise.

-BEATTIE.

Oh! how hard it is to die, and not be able to leave the world any better for one's little life in it.

-ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Oh! what a great work each one could perform in the world if he only knew his power.-O. S. MARDEN.

Oh! what a tangled web we weave,

When first we practice to deceive.

-WALTER SCOTT.

Old age seizes upon an ill-spent youth like fire upon a rotten house.-SOUTH.

One drop of sin always shatters the cup of joy and wastes life's precious wine.-NEWELL D. HILLIS.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration.-CARNEGIE.

One-half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may drone.-LONGFELLOW.

One has only to know the twenty-six letters of the alphabet in order to learn everything else that one wishes.-DUKE OF ARGYLE.

One life; a little gem of Time between two Eternities; no second chance for us forevermore.-CARLYLE.

One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.-Stedman.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.-BULWER.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words.-GOETHE.

One science only will one genius fit.-POPE.

One shriek of hate would jar all the hymns of heaven. -TENNYSON.

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

-POPE.

"One test of intellectual power is sticking to a thing until you have mastered it."

"One who has sense enough to take advice has too much sense to need it."

"One's personal enjoyment is a very small thing, but one's personal usefulness is a very important thing." Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.-EMERSON.

Only what we have wrought into our characters during life can we take away with us.-HUMBOLDT.

Only when the heart loves can intellect do great work. -NEWELL D. HILLIS.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds. cannot feel the use of.-JOHN Stuart Mill.

Our anger and quarrels must be put away.-CICERO. "Our antagonist is our helper."

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us I do what we can. This is the service of a friend.

-EMERSON.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.-AMIEL.

Our glory is in the race we run, not in the prize.

-ROGERS. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

-CARLYLE.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves. -ROUSSEAU.

Our land is rough and poor; we grow but little produce, and so we build school-houses and churches and grow men.-WEBSTER.

Our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm as electricity is inwrought in the air, exalting its power by a suitable presence.-GEORGE ELIOT.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to Heaven.-SHAKESPEARE.

Party is the madness of the many for the gain of the few.-POPE.

Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me a kind of prophecy.-GREVILLE.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

-VICTOR HUGO.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.-HAMERTON.

"People know that it is useless to oppose a man who uses his stumbling-blocks as stepping-stones."

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. -ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.-EMERSON. "Plan your work, and work your plan."

"Plant as if you expected to live forever,

Live as if you expected to die tomorrow."

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb; sweet to the soul and health to the bones.-Bible.

"Politeness before force."

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manner requires serenity of mind.-JULIA WARD HOWE.

Politeness is as natural to delicate natures as perfume is to flowers.-DE FINOD.

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.-Bible.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing. -HUBBARD.

Poverty is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings. -OUIDA.

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.—Bible.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.-FRANKLIN.

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