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 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.] 
All glory comes from daring to begin.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
 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. 
 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.] 
 What's well begun, is half done.
 [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]  
 What's well begun, is half done.
 [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.] 
 The beginnings of all things are small.
 [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]  
 The beginnings of all things are small.
 [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.] 
 Whatever begins, also ends.
 [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]  
 Whatever begins, also ends.
 [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.] 
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
 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.