Careful Words

none (n.)

none (adv.)

none (adj.)

None are so desolate but something dear,

Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd

A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 24.

None but himself can be his parallel.

Louis Theobald (1691-1744): The Double Falsehood.

None but the brave deserves the fair.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Alexander's Feast. Line 15.

None ever loved but at first sight they loved.

George Chapman (1557-1634): The Blind Beggar of Alexandria.

Green be the turf above thee,

Friend of my better days!

None knew thee but to love thee,

Nor named thee but to praise.

Alfred Bunn (1790-1860): On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake.

She was good as she was fair,

None—none on earth above her!

As pure in thought as angels are:

To know her was to love her.

Samuel Rogers (1763-1855): Jacqueline. Stanza 1.

  If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826): Letter to Elias Shipman and others of New Haven, July 12, 1801.

  None so blind as those that will not see.

Mathew Henry (1662-1714): Commentaries. Jeremiah xx.

  There is none so blind as they that won't see.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.

Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee

That wilfully will neither heare nor see?

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.

  None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Mathew Henry (1662-1714): Commentaries. Psalm lviii.

But yesterday the word of Caesar might

Have stood against the world; now lies he there,

And none so poor to do him reverence.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 238.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,—

A maid whom there were none to praise

And very few to love.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): She dwelt among the untrodden ways.

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,

And none could be unhappy but the great.

Nicholas Rowe (1673-1718): The Fair Penitent. Prologue.

I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7.

None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,

But love can hope where reason would despair.

Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773): Epigram.