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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
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Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
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Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
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Nothing ages a man like living always with the same woman.
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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 come out of the artist that is not in the man.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) -
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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