=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 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.
=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._
=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._