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 A life of nothing's nothing worth,
 From that first nothing ere his birth,
  To that last nothing read more 
 A life of nothing's nothing worth,
 From that first nothing ere his birth,
  To that last nothing under earth. 
 We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since 
things require a seed to start from.
 [Lat., read more 
 We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since 
things require a seed to start from.
 [Lat., Nil igitur fieri de nilo posse putandum es
  Semine quando opus est rebus.] 
 Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into 
nothing.
 [Lat., Gigni
  De nihilo read more 
 Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into 
nothing.
 [Lat., Gigni
  De nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti.] 
Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.
Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.
Nothing happens until something moves.
Nothing happens until something moves.
 Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be 
done.
 [Lat., Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset read more 
 Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be 
done.
 [Lat., Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum.] 
 Why and Wherefore set out one day,
 To hunt for a wild Negation.
  They agreed to meet read more 
 Why and Wherefore set out one day,
 To hunt for a wild Negation.
  They agreed to meet at a cool retreat
   On the Point of Interrogation. 
 Madam, you have bereft me of all words.
 Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
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 Madam, you have bereft me of all words.
 Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
  And there is such confusion in my powers
   As, after some oration fairly spoke
    By a beloved prince, there doth appear
     Among the buzzing pleased multitude,
      Where every something being blent together
       Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy
        Expressed and not expressed. 
 They laboriously do nothing.
 [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]  
 They laboriously do nothing.
 [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]