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Quotes about Nothing


Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
To-morrow be to-day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,--
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams of doing good
For good-for-nothing people.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

This laurel greener from the brows
Of him that uttered nothing base.

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet!
Nothing comes to thee new or strange.
Sleep full of rest from head to feet;
Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

It went to pieces all at once--
All at once and nothing first,
Just as bubbles do when they burst.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.

Theodore Parker

A world where nothing is had for nothing.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Walt Whitman

I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

Walt Whitman

Really and truly--I've nothing to wear.

William Allen Butler

Of nothing comes nothing: springs rise not above
Their source in the far-hidden heart of the mountains:
Whence then have descended the Wisdom and Love
That in man leap to light in intelligent fountains?

John Townsend Trowbridge

There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.

George Meredith

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries or distinctions of race.

Herbert Spencer

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

Alexander Smith

A world made to be lost,--
A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.

William Morris

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

Joseph Henry Shorthouse

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

Joseph Henry Shorthouse

Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free
Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!
Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun,
Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won
God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain
And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain.

Sidney Lanier

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing to do but work,
Nothing to eat but food,
Nothing to wear but clothes
To keep one from going nude.

Benjamin Franklin King, Jr

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