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~~ 101 to 200 ~~

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101. Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

102. Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. -- Joseph Joubert

103. Be cheerful, no matter what reverse obstruct your pathway, or what plagues follow you in your trail to annoy you. ---(SIR ARTHUR HELPS).

104. Be cheerful.

105. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

106. Be commonplace and creeping, and you attain all things.

107. Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

108. Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. --Thucydides

109. Be courteous with all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.--George Washington

110. Be different: conform.

111. Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

112. Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so get used to it.

113. Be gentle with yourself. If you will not be your own unconditional friend, who will be? If you are playing an opponent and you are opposing yourself-you are going to be outnumbered

114. Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. -- Henry Van Dyke

115. Be good and you will be lonesome.--Mark Twain

116. Be good or be good at it!

117. Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

118. Be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

119. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

120. Be happy while you're living, For you're a long time dead. Scottish Proverb

121. Be honest to those who are honest, And be also honest to those who are not honest.

122. Be humble and gentle in your conversation, of few words, I charge you, but always pertinent when you speak, bearing out before you attempt to answer, and then speaking as if you would persuade, not impose. ---(PENN).

123. Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.

124. Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.

125. Be intent on his intentions.

126. Be it better, be it worse,

127. Be it jewel or toy, Not the prize gives the joy, But the striving to win the prize.

128. Be just before you are generous.

129. Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are. --Don Herold

130. Be kind Remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Harry Thompson

131. Be kind to everyone you talk with. You never know who's going to be on the jury.

132. Be kind to unkind peoplethey need it the most.

133. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. Josh Billings

134. Be long sick, that you man be soon hale.

135. Be merry if you are wise.

136. Be moderate where pleasure is concerned, avoid fatigue.

137. Be more aware of your responsibility than you are of your rights.

138. Be more concerned about your character than about your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think of you.

139. Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. -Dale Carnegie

140. Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

141. Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you pass them all on the way down. (Fred A. Hufnagel Sr.)

142. Be nice to people on the way up, because you may need their help on the way down.

143. Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. --Wilson Mizner

144. Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.

145. Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

146. Be not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of standing still. -Old Chinese Proverb

147. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

148. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas a Kempis

149. Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

150. Be Not Bumptious! -- Stan Buchanan

151. Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

152. Be not deceived with fair pretences, nor suppose that sorrow healeth misfortune. It is a poison under the colour of a remedy; while it pretendeth to draw the arrow from thy breast, lo, it plungeth it into thine heart.

153. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

154. Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.

155. Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

156. Be not too bold with your betters.

157. Be not too hasty to outbid another.

158. Be of an exceedingly humble spirit, for the end of man is the worm.

159. Be of good faith, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. - Bishop Hugh Latimer to Bishop Ridley, at the stake.

160. Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

161. Be omnivorous in your tastes.

162. Be on the level and you wont go downhill.

163. Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water. Latin Proverb

164. Be patient enough to live one day at a time as Jesus taught us, letting yesterday go, leaving tomorrow until it arrives.

165. Be patriotic. Join the army, Travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting unusual people...and kill them.

166. Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

167. Be Prepared Boy Scout Motto

168. Be punctual and insist on it to others.

169. Be reasonable - do it my way

170. Be ruled by him that bears the purse.

171. Be safety conscious. 80% of people are caused by accidents.

172. Be satisfied with the needs insead of the wants. (Teeton Sioux)

173. Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.

174. Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. Scottish Proverb

175. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. (Benjamin Franklin)

176. Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

177. Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.--Miguel de Cervantes

178. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

179. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. ---(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN).

180. Be still, and have thy will.

181. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

182. Be sure before you marry of a house wherein to tarry.

183. Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build it on opinion or custom or what you guess is true. Make it matter of certainty and science.

184. Be sure to tie your nightie to your toes, 'cos you know where the wild goose goes.

185. Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

186. Be sure you're right, then go straight ahead. - Davey Crockett.

187. Be thankful - if you didn't have a nose, you'd have to stick you rear in other people's business.

188. Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. -- Will Rogers

189. Be the first to say what is self-evident, and you are immortal. --M. Ebner-Eschenbach

190. Be there with the day and be gone with the day

191. Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.. Turkish Proverb

192. Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee.

193. Be thrifty, but not covetous; there-fore give---Thy need, shine honour, and thy friend, his due:---Never was scraper brave man. Get to live;---Then live, and use it; else it is not true---That thou hast gotten: surely, use alone---Makes money not a contemptible stone. ---(GEORGE HERBERT).

194. Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

195. Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you.

196. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

197. Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes; so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise.

198. Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss.

199. Be watchful of all your actions, because somewhere there is always someone who knows what you have done.

200. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.


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