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The Master said, Learning without thought is naught; thought without learning is dangerous. — Confucius

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself. — George Eliot

It is naught but pain and regret when we think of the things and people we will never have, the opportunities we may never get. — Kelly Creagh

Naught but love makes magic real. — Salman Rushdie

All our dreams and hopes become as naught, and evil men are allowed to hang their lanterns on our tombstones. What greater folly is there? — James Lee Burke

In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men. — Khalil Gibran

Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay. — Thomas Tusser

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught. — Thomas Carlyle

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure. — James Whistler

Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will
tomorrow — Gloria Pitzer

Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts. — Walter Hilton

Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul! — Paul Verlaine

Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure. — Tobsha Learner

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. — Moshe Dayan

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism. — Charles Studd

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing god invents — Robert Browning

Man's works do not even come close to the works of the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not work, all the efforts of man will come to naught. — John Sung

Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others. — Laini Taylor

We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us. — Dario Fo

Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare

Naught so sweet as melancholy. — Robert A. Burton

Naught so insipid in the world I find
As is a devil in despair. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction. — Kahlil Gibran

Bit by bit, man reduces to naught. — Akinwale Musa Oluseun

There's naught to eat in the dark but flesh. — George R R Martin

Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers. — Kenneth Rand

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost. — Sophie Swetchine

Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise,
Having naught else but Hope. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Confess then, naught from nothing can become,
Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow,
Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air. — Lucretius

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught. — Victoria Principal

Who naught suspects is easily deceived. — Petrarch

Naught have I gotten, but what I've received. — James M. Gray

It is all for naught, if not for love. — Molly Friedenfeld

Naught is there mightier than God;
Yet hath He not the might to turn
My Will from willing what it will,
My yearning as it needs must yearn? — Angelus Silesius

The Infinite keeps naught save Love, for it is in its own likeness. — Kahlil Gibran

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught. — Edith Hamilton

The deed is everything, the glory is naught. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A bullet is naught but a glorified pebble. — Jason Heller

To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma. — Leonora Speyer

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will. — Susanna Kearsley

So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done. — Kabir

Will did not think that was fair, but he accepted that kings were often unfair and there was naught to be done about it. — Sharon Kay Penman

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. — Torquato Tasso

For naught so vile on the Earth doth live, but to the Earth some special good doth give — William Shakespeare

Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field. — Dogen

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face — Juvenal

Notice those gorgeous homes that represent happiness, glory and domination; they are naught but caverns of misery and distress. — Kahlil Gibran

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. — Joseph Joubert

We are naught but a collection of the people we have known and the paths we have followed. — Jeremy Laszlo

Sometimes there is naught you can do for a man, save stand quietly beside him and believe. (Advice to Felicity Langley from her Nanny Rana) — Elizabeth Boyle

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love. — Kahlil Gibran

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels. (p. 57). — Shannon Hale

My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything. — Peter Hook

Live. Live, brothers, though there be naught but shame and failure to furnish forth your living. — John Updike

You can't go walking through Mordor in naught but your skin. — Sam Lipsyte

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? — Ada Cambridge

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved. — Baha'u'llah

There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

You are! There ain't no Thirteenth! Ain't naught but the Twelve, that's truth! Yeah, I been to Verrar a couple times, met up with lads and lasses — Scott Lynch

Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all. — Gautama Buddha

All too often we learn what we should have done by doing the opposite. Then we reap naught but sorrow. — Susan Mayse

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon

A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion. — Richelle E. Goodrich

In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love. — Baha'u'llah

Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future, for happiness is naught but the moment." And — Kahlil Gibran

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear:
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
— Edward Young

Give naught, get same. Give much, get same. — Malcolm Forbes

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. — George Gordon Byron

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning. — Edouard Rene De Laboulaye

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice! — Marquis De Sade

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change. — James Russell Lowell

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Time fleeth on,
Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide;
Life seemeth fast,
But may not last
It runs as runs the time. — Charles Godfrey Leland

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught. — Frank Sinatra

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet. — Vanna Bonta

Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought. — William Shakespeare

Oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy. — Herman Melville

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting. — Emma Lazarus

This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain. — Vyasa

Ascension is naught without first ascertaining the Aleph in the World — AainaA-Ridtz

Cease these sweet words," I protested. "You seek to bend me to your will, but it will not work. Your flattery is naught to me but wind! — Patrick Rothfuss

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. — Mark Twain

O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls! — Philip James Bailey

Naught will be done to you that you doona wish done. Dageus MacKeltar — Karen Marie Moning

Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Lingering labors come to naught. — Robert Southwell

He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God. — Saint John Chrysostom

Every moment of enjoyment
Brings to some one else a sorrow,
But your sorrow gladdens no one,
For from sorrow naught but sorrow springs. — August Strindberg

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance. — Robert Greene

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading, it disperses to naught. — William Shakespeare

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. — Gamaliel

But the flower leaned aside
And thought of naught to say,
And morning found the winter breeze
A hundred miles away. — Robert Frost

All success in life comes to naught if it is laced with vanity. — Andy Paula

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. — William Shakespeare

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace. — William Blake

If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught! — Bill Munson

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. — George Santayana