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A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
 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 highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
 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.] 
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
 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.] 
 There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. 
That will be the beginning.  
 There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. 
That will be the beginning. 
 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.]