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, for no one understands what I say. _Ovid._ =Barbouillage=--Scribbling. _Fr._ =Barking dogs seldom bite.= _Pr._ 55 =Bas bleu=--A blue-stocking. _Fr._ =Base envy withers at another's joy, / And hates that excellence it cannot reach.= _Thomson._ =Base in kind, and born to be a slave.= _Cowper._ =Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.= _Othello_, ii. 1. =Base souls have no faith in great men.= _Rousseau._ 60 =Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.= _Arist._ =Bashfulness is but the passage from one season of life to another.= _Bp. Hurd._ =Basis virtutum constantia=--Constancy is the basis of all the virtues. _M._ =Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer.= _Tennyson._ =Battle's magnificently stern array.= _Byron._ =Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.= _Hume._ =Beard was never the true standard of brains.= _Fuller._ =Bear one another's burdens.= _St. Paul._ =Bear wealth, poverty will bear itself.= _Pr._ 5 =Be a sinner and sin manfully (fortiter), but believe and rejoice in Christ more manfully still.= _Luther to Melanchthon._ =Be as you would seem to be.= _Pr._ =Beatæ memoriæ=--Of blessed memory. =Beati monoculi in regione cæcorum=--Blessed are the one-eyed among those who are blind. _Pr._ =Beatus ille qui procul negotiis, / Ut prisca= 10 =gens mortalium, / Paterna rura bobus exercet suis, / Solutus omni fœnore=--Happy the man who, remote from busy life, is content, like the primitive race of mortals, to plough his paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from all borrowing and lending. _Hor._ =Beaucoup de mémoire et peu de jugement=--A retentive memory and little judgment. _Fr. Pr._ =Beau idéal=--Ideal excellence, or one's conception of perfection in anything. _Fr._ =Beau monde=--The fashionable world. _Fr._ =Beauté et folie sont souvent en compagnie=--Beauty and folly go often together. _Fr. Pr._ =Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; /= 15 =Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.= _Pope._ =Beautiful it is to understand and know that a thought did never yet die; that as thou, the originator thereof, hast gathered it and created it from the whole past, so thou wilt transmit to the whole future.= _Carlyle._ =Beauty blemished once, for ever's lost.= _Shakespeare._ =Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions; it is itself the greatest distinction.= _Bovee._ =Beauty carries its dower in its face.= _Dan. Pr._ =Beauty depends more on the movement of the= 20 =face than the form of the features.= _Mrs. Hall._ =Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, / And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy. / O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine.= _Love's L's. Lost_, iv. 3. =Beauty draws us with a single hair.= _Pope._ =Beauty is a good letter of introduction.= _Ger. Pr._ =Beauty is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds.= _Goethe._ =Beauty is an all-pervading presence.= _Channing._ 25 =Beauty is a patent of nobility.= _G. Schwab._ =Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last.= _Bacon._ =Beauty is a witch, / Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1. =Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, / Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.= _Love's L's. Lost_, ii. 1. =Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good.= 30 _Shakespeare._ =Beauty is everywhere a right welcome guest.= _Goethe._ =Beauty is never a delusion.= _Hawthorne._ =Beauty is the flowering of virtue.= _Gr. Pr._ =Beauty is the highest principle and the highest aim of art.= _Goethe._ =Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.= _Emerson._ 35 =Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.= _Michael Angelo._ =Beauty is truth, truth beauty--that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.= _Keats._ =Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both holder and the beholder.= _Zimmermann._ =Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; / Both most are valued where they best are known.= _Lyttelton._ =Beauty lives with kindness.= _Two Gen. of_ 40 _Ver._, iv. 2. =Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.= _As You Like It_, i. 3. =Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman.= _Emerson._ =Beauty stands / In the admiration only of weak minds, / Led captive.= _Milton._ =Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.= _Campbell._ =Beauty too rich for use; for earth too dear.= 45 _Rom. and Jul._, i. 5. =Beauty, when unadorned, adorned the most.= _Thomson._ =Beauty without expression tires.= _Emerson._ =Beauty without grace is a violet without smell.= _Pr._ =Beaux esprits=--Men of wit. _Fr._ =Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.= 50 _Spenser._ =Be checked for silence, / But never tax'd for speech.= _All's Well_, i. 1. =Be commonplace and cringing, and everything is within your reach.= _Beaumarchais._ =Bedenkt, der Teufel der ist alt, / So werdet alt ihn zu verstehen=--Consider, the devil is old; therefore grow old to understand him. _Goethe._ =Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.= _Wellington._ =Be England what she will, / With all her faults= 55 =she is my country still.= _Churchill._ =Bees will not work except in darkness; thought will not work except in silence; neither will virtue work except in secrecy.= _Carlyle._ =Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.= _Emerson._ =Before every one stands an image (Bild) of what he ought to be; so long as he is not that, his peace is not complete.= _Rückert._ =Before honour is humility.= _Bible._ =Before man made us citizens, great Nature= 60 =made us men.= _Lowell._ =Before the curing of a strong disease, / Even in the instant of repair and health, / The fit is strongest; evils that take leave, / On their departure most of all show evil.= _King John_, iii. 4. =Before the immense possibilities of man, all mere experience, all past biography, however spotless and sainted, shrinks away.= _Emerson._ =Before the revelations of the soul, Time, Space, and Nature shrink away.= _Emerson._ =Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with him.= _Pr._ =Beggars, mounted, run their horse to death.= 3 _Hen. VI._, i. 4. =Beggars must not be choosers.= _Pr._ =Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.= _Ham._, ii. 2. =Begnügt euch doch ein Mensch zu sein=--Let it content thee that thou art a man. _Lessing._ =Begun is half done.= _Pr._ 5 =Behaupten ist nicht beweisen=--Assertion is no proof. _Ger. Pr._ =Behaviour is a mirror in which each one shows his image.= _Goethe._ =Behind a frowning providence / God hides a shining face.= _Cowper._ =Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do afar off.= _Emerson._ =Behind every individual closes organisation;= 10 =before him opens liberty.= _Emerson._ =Behind every mountain lies a vale.= _Dut. Pr._ =Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth.= _St. James._ =Beholding heaven and feeling hell.= _Moore._ =Behold now is the accepted time.= _St. Paul._ =Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, /= 15 =Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.= _Pope._ =Bei den meisten Menschen gründet sich der Unglaube in einer Sache auf blinden Glauben in einer andern=--With most men unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another. _Lichtenberg._ =Bei Geldsachen hört die Gemütlichkeit auf=--When money is in question, good day to friendly feeling. _D. Hansemann._ =Beinahe bringt keine Mücke um=--Almost never killed a fly. _Ger. Pr._ =Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.= _Auerbach._ =Being done, / There is no pause.= _Othello_, 20 v. 2. =Being without well-being is a curse; and the greater being, the greater curse.= _Bacon._ =Be in possession, and thou hast the right, and sacred will the many guard it for thee.= _Schiller._ =Be it never so humble, there's no place like home.= _J. H. Payne._ =Bei wahrer Liebe ist Vertrauen=--With true love there is trust. _Ph. Reger._ =Be just and fear not; / Let all the ends thou= 25 =aim'st at be thy country's, / Thy God's, and truth's.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2. =Be just before you be generous.= _Pr._ =Beleidigst du einen Mönch, so knappen alle Kuttenzipfel bis nach Rom=--Offend but one monk, and the lappets of all cowls will flutter as far as Rome. _Ger. Pr._ =Bel esprit=--A person of genius; a brilliant mind. _Fr._ =Belief and love,--a believing love, will relieve us of a vast load of care.= _Emerson._ =Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of= 30 =the soul; unbelief, in denying them.= _Emerson._ =Believe not each accusing tongue, / As most weak persons do; / But still believe that story wrong / Which ought not to be true.= _Sheridan._ =Believe not every spirit.= _St. John._ =Bella! horrida bella!=--War! horrid war! _Virg._ =Bella femmina che ride, vuol dire borsa che piange=--The smiles of a pretty woman are the tears of the purse. _It. Pr._ =Bella matronis detestata=--Wars detested by 35 mothers. _Hor._ =Belle, bonne, riche, et sage, est une femme en quatre étages=--A woman who is beautiful, good, rich, and wise, is four stories high. _Fr. Pr._ =Belle chose est tôt ravie=--A fine thing is soon snapt up. _Fr. Pr._ =Bellet ein alter Hund, so soll man aufschauen=--When an old dog barks, one must look out. _Ger. Pr._ =Bellicæ virtutis præmium=--The reward of valour in war. _M._ =Bellua multorum capitum=--The many-headed 40 monster, _i.e._, the mob. =Bellum internecinum=--A war of extermination. =Bellum ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud nisi pax quæsita videatur=--War should be so undertaken that nothing but peace may seem to be aimed at. _Cic._ =Bellum nec timendum nec provocandum=--War ought neither to be dreaded nor provoked. _Plin. the Younger._ =Bellum omnium in omnes=--A war of all against all. =Bellum, pax rursus=--A war, and again a peace. 45 _Ter._ [Greek: beltion thanein hapax ê dia bion tremein]--Better die outright than be all one's life long in terror. _Æsop._ =Bemerke, höre, schweige. Urteile wenig, frage viel=--Take note of what you see, give heed to what you hear, and be silent. Judge little, inquire much. _Platen._ =Be modest without diffidence, proud without presumption.= _Goethe._ =Benchè la bugia sia veloce, la verità l'arriva=--Though a lie may be swift, truth overtakes it. _It. Pr._ =Beneath the loveliest dream there coils a fear.= 50 _T. Watts._ =Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.= _Bulwer Lytton._ =Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, / Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, / Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, / The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.= _Gray._ =Ben è cieco chi non vede il sole=--He is very blind who does not see the sun. _It. Pr._ =Benedetto è quel male che vien solo=--Blessed is the misfortune that comes alone. _It. Pr._ =Bene e