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.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

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.

First things first, second things never.

First things first, second things never.

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.]

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.

A good beginning makes a good end.

A good beginning makes a good end.