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“A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.”
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“A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.”
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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.]”
Decimus Magnus Ausonius Quotes Source: Epigrams (LXXXI, 1)
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“Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands
for the whole.
[Lat., Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars.]”
Decimus Magnus Ausonius Quotes Source: Idyllia (II, Inconnexa, 5)
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“It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
[Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui coute a vaincre la
pudeur.]”
Jacques Benigue Bossuet Quotes Source: Pensees Chretiennes et Morales (IX)
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“The beginnings of all things are small.
[Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (V, 21)
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“In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should
be made.
[Lat., In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est
praeparatio diligens.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Officiis (I, 21)
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“First things first, second things never.”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Officiis (I, 21)
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“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.]”
Madame Marie Anne du Deffand Quotes Source: Letter to d'Alembert
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“It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.
[Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]”
Caius Cornelius Gallus Quotes Source: Anat. Melan., by Burton (translator)
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“What's well begun, is half done.
[Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 2, 40)
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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.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes Source: in his inaugural address
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“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.”
Louis L'Amour Quotes Source: Lonely on the Mountain
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“At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the
underlying mathematical structure will be seen.”
Louis L'Amour Quotes Source: Lonely on the Mountain
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“Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first.
[Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Heroides (IX, 23)
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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.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Remedia Amoris (XCI)
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“Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
[Lat., Deficit omne quod nascitur.]”
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian) Quotes Source: De Institutione Oratoria (V, 10)
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“Whatever begins, also ends.
[Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: De Consolatione ad Polybium (I)
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“Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
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“Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
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“To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (prologue at V, i)
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“Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not done.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes Source: Major Barbara
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“The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“It is the beginning of the end.
[Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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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.]”
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Quotes Source: L'Indiscret (I, i)
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