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.]

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.

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.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

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.]

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.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one
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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one
on which depends the rest of our days.
[Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde,
Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.]

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.