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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose to be a general.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.
In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company.
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
Freedom is neither guaranteed nor automatic; not even in the United States. Left unguarded, it can slip away like a thief in the night.
What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
There are no free rides nor short cuts in this world. 'The Voice' and 'The Bachelorette' are very poor examples to model your life with.
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.
Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.