Beginning. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Beginning


He has half the deed done, who has made a beginning. Horace.—By Smart, Book I. Epistle 2.	1
When the ancients said that a work begun was half done, they meant that we ought to take the utmost pains in every undertaking to make a good beginning. Polybius.—V. 32. (Dr. Ramage, Beautiful Thoughts from Greek Authors.)	2
The mind must be excited to make a beginning. Seneca.	3
The true beginning of our end. Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Enter Prologue.) A.D. 1600.	4
I see the beginning of my end, for I am almost starved. Massinger.—The Virgin Martyr, Act III. Scene 3. (A.D. 1622.)	5
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. St. John.—The Revelation, Chap. xxii. Ver. 13.	6
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from the ancient times the things that are not yet done. Isaiah, Chap. xlvi. Ver. 10.	7