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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him.

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Leszczynski Stanislaus

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

Edgar Watson Howe

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important.

Sylvia Plath

Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know That what was worn some twenty years ago Comes into grace again.

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

Tool

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Lena Horne

On such an occasion as this, All time and nonsense scorning, Nothing shall come amiss, And we won't go home till morning.

John Baldwin Buckstone

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Clara Cicero

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

William Cobbett

Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.

Thomas Robert Dewar

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

W. C. Fields

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

J. Ogden Armour

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Alexander Hamilton

Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.

William Basse Bible

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Georges Bernanos

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

Wayne Calloway

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Ray Knight

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.

William Cowper

Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

Wes Smith

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.

Jean Paul Ausonius

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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