Nay Quotes

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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. — Abu Bakr
Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine;… — Annie Besant
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. — Thomas Carlyle
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to… — Maya Angelou
It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in… — J. G. Holland
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange… — Winston Churchill
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys… — Pliny the Elder
We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that… — Abraham Lincoln
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for… — Saint Augustine
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company. — John Donne
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so… — Martin Luther
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one… — Swami Vivekananda
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do… — William Shakespeare
Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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