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If the end be well, all will be well.
[Lat., Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.]
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Gestoe Romanorum (tale LXVII)
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It ain't over till it's over.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Gestoe Romanorum (tale LXVII)
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Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt
never do amiss.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. VII, v. 36)
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Have regard to the end.
[Lat., Finem respice (or Respice finem).]
Author: Chilo of Sparta (Chilon)
Source: a translation of his saying
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This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Author: T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot)
Source: The Hollow Men
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He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have
placed a golden crown to the whole.
Author: Eustathius
Source: Commentary on the Iliad
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A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman,
seldome end well.
[A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman
seldom end well.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Hesperides (340)
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Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. IV, III)
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
[Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Fables (III, 5)
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In my end is my beginning.
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Fables (III, 5)
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The road is long fro the project to its completion.
[Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la chose.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Source: Le Tartuffe (III, 1)
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The end must justify the means.
Author: Matthew Prior
Source: Hans Carvel (l. 67)
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The end crowns all.
Author: Proverb
Source: (Dutch)
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By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends.
[Fr., Par les memes voies on ne va pas toujours aux memes fins.]
Author: Proverb
Source: (Dutch)
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All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown.
Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at IV, iv)
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The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Hector at IV, v)
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Look to the end of a long life.
Author: Solon
Source: words said to Croesus
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It is commonly and truly also said: "Matters be ended as they be
friended."
Author: Thomas Starkey
Source: England in the Reign of Henry VIII (bk. I, ch. III, 33)
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