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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Everything that has a beginning comes to an 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.]
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.]
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
[Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il read more
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
[Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui
coute.]
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.]
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
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.]