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, -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 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. -QUIDA. 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. |