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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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.]
Whatever begins, also ends.
[Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]
Whatever begins, also ends.
[Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
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.]
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
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.]
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.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not done.