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.]

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.

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.

Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

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.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
[Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle read more

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
[Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui coute a vaincre la
pudeur.]

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.]