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Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
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Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the
evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.
[Lat., Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur,
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.]
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not read more
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not done.
Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.
Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.
Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first.
[Lat., Coepisti melius quam read more
Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first.
[Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]
All glory comes from daring to begin.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it
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All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it
be finished in the first 1,000 days, not in the life of this
Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
But let us begin.
It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.
[Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]
It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.
[Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
[Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il read more
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
[Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui
coute.]