To be wroth with one we love, / Doth work like madness in the brain. Coleridge.
To be young is to be as one of the immortals. Hazlitt.
To bear is to conquer our fate. Campbell. 5
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it and disputed against it. Novalis.
To beguile the time, / Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, / Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under 't. Macb., i. 5.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius. Emerson.
To blow is not to play the flute; you must move the fingers as well. Goethe.
To breed a fresh soul, is it not like brooding a 10 fresh (celestial) egg, wherein as yet all is formless, powerless? Yet by degrees organic elements and fibres shoot through the watery albumen; out of vague sensation grows thought, grows fantasy and force, and we have philosophies, dynasties, nay, poetries and religions. Carlyle.
To bring nations to surrender themselves to new ideas is not the affair of a day. Draper.
To bring the generality of admirers on our side, it is sufficient to attempt pleasing a very few. Goldsmith.