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Big things have small beginnings.
Big things have small beginnings.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
 Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again 
begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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 Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again 
begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
 [Lat., Incipe; dimidium facti est coepisse. Supersit
  Dimidium: rursum hoc incipe, et efficies.] 
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
 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.] 
 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. 
 It is the beginning of the end.
 [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]  
 It is the beginning of the end.
 [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.] 
 What's well begun, is half done.
 [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]  
 What's well begun, is half done.
 [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]