#nay

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. ↗

— George Gissing

#buy #cheerful #hours #i #make

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#doing #doing good #exert #giving #good

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#completely #fortunate #good #had #happy

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#always #large #loose #nay #organization

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#christianity #great #hater #liar #may

Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood. ↗

— Rudolfo Anaya

#beauty #bless #childhood #llano #me

I couldn't work out what she actually wanted. Whether being dead happened in a pretty box on Welsh Street or someplace else, it didn't make a difference. Dead was irreversible. It was permanent. You couldn't do anything about it, and still, Tate seemed determined to take it back, like with the right answer, she could fix everything. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#death #replacement #death

Providence knows best. ↗

— Michael Beloved

#meditation #pranayama #providence #yoga #yoga

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#brown #cause #even #hear #her

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

#bad #before #essential #good #good qualities