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None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
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Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.
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Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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Nothing can be more obvious than all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
Headlong hall (1816) -
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.
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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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