Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Bene orasse est bene studuisse—To have prayed well is to have striven well.

Bene qui latuit, bene vixit—Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity. Ovid.

Benevolence is the distinguishing characteristic of man. Mencues.

Benigno numine—By the favour of Providence. 10 M.

Benignus etiam dandi causam cogitat—The benevolent man even weighs the grounds of his liberality. Pr.

Be no one like another, yet every one like the Highest; to this end let each one be perfect in himself. Goethe.

Be not angry that you cannot make others what you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be. Thomas à Kempis.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. St. Paul.

Be not righteous overmuch. Bible. 15

Be not the first by whom the new is tried, / Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope.