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401. Do not be too sweet lest you be eaten, do not be too sour lest you be shunned.

402. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

403. Do not become attached to the things you like, do not cherish aversion to the things you dislike. Sorrow, fear and bondage come from one's likes and dislikes.

404. Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them.

405. Do not believe that lust can ever be killed out if gratified or satiated, for this is an abomination inspired by illusion.

406. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook. Thomas Jefferson

407. Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression.

408. Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. Barbara Jordan

409. Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.

410. Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.

411. Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

412. Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible. --George Washington

413. Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -- Dandemis (by way of anu.@wordsmith.org)

414. Do not condemn your neighbor: you do not know what you would have done in his place.

415. Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

416. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. Alfred A. Montapert

417. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

418. Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

419. Do not dispose of the monkey's tail before he is dead.

420. Do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.

421. Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

422. Do not do what is already done.

423. Do not do what you would undo if caught. Leah Arendt

424. Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon.

425. Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

426. Do not eat your heart. Pythagoras

427. Do not employ handsome servants. Chinese Proverb

428. Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. --Charles Eliot

429. Do not fear furikawari.

430. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

431. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Muriel Strode

432. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Emerson

433. Do not halloo till you are out of the wood.

434. Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

435. Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

436. Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins. (Cheyenne)

437. Do not keep a dog and bark yourself.

438. Do not keep your tongue under your belt

439. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourself treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

440. Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. Karl Kraus

441. ><p>Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping. Latin Proverb

442. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

443. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

444. Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber

445. Do not make moves that strengthen your opponent!

446. Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

447. Do not marry a person that you know that you can live with; only marry someone that you cannot live without.

448. Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piddle on your keyboard . . .

449. Do not meet troubles half-way.

450. Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. Henry James

451. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. Erik Erikson

452. Do not mistake a goats beard for a fine stallions tail

453. Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

454. Do not only point out the way, but lead the way. (Sioux)

455. Do not overestimate the decency of the human race. H.L. Mencken

456. Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.

457. Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. Czech Proverb

458. Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

459. Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory. -- Sir Arthur Eddington

460. Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you. Romanian Proverb

461. Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. Anonymous

462. Do not remove a fly from a friend's forehead with a chopstick.

463. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing 1 Peter 3:9

464. Do not repeat them in the future.

465. Do not say the first thing that comes to your mind.

466. Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

467. Do not search for a calf under an ox.

468. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

469. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -- Basho

470. Do not show your teeth until you can bite.

471. Do not show your teeth where you cannot give a bite.

472. Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.

473. Do not sleep in a eucalyptus tree tonight.

474. Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.

475. Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosity in the hearts of the young. (Lakota)

476. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not, but remember that what you have was once only among the things you had hoped for.

477. Do not spur a free horse.

478. Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. Arab Proverb

479. Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. -- Elbert Hubbard

480. Do not talk about disgrace from a thing being known, when disgrace is, that the thing should exist.

481. Do not tell the man who is carrying you that he stinks.

482. Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

483. Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use.

484. Do not think that man is but flesh, skin, bones and veins; far from it! What really makes man is his soul; and the things we call skin, flesh, bones and veins are but a garment, a cloak; they do not constitute man. When man departs this earth, he divests himself of all the veils that conceal him.

485. Do not think you are on the right road just because it is a well-beaten path.

486. Do not think yourself so large as to deem others small! He who says that others are not equal to himself, comes to ruin. Confucius

487. Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. Kurdish Proverb

488. Do not try to cook the goat's young in the goat's milk.

489. Do not try to solve all life's problems at once -- learn to dread each day as it comes.

490. Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

491. Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

492. Do not wait for extrordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. Jean Paul Richter

493. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Mother Teresa

494. Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act

495. Do not worry about tomorrow, because you do not even know what may happen to you today.--Yiddish Proverbs

496. Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.

497. Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself. Native American Proverb Pima

498. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

499. Do on the hill as you would do in the hall.

500. Do or Do not. There is no try! -- Yoga


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