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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.
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 have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.
To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after read more
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
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.
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.]
Big things have small beginnings.
Big things have small beginnings.
Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first.
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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.]
