“A journey once begun, has no end”
Kiran Desai book The Inheritance of Loss
Source: The Inheritance of Loss
“A journey once begun, has no end”
Kiran Desai book The Inheritance of Loss
Source: The Inheritance of Loss
“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”
Beverly Sills (1929–2007) opera soprano
Pythagoras, as quoted in Treasury of Thought : Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou
Misattributed
“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) by Maturin Murray Ballou
“Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Thoughts, 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”
José Rizal book Noli Me Tángere
Source: Noli Me Tángere
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Et del mio vaneggiar vergogna è 'l frutto,
e 'l pentersi, e 'l conoscer chiaramente
che quanto piace al mondo è breve sogno.
Canzone 1, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”
Robert Herrick book Hesperides
"The End".
Hesperides (1648)
“The whole world would have been destroyed if compassion did not put an end to anger.”
Perierat totus orbis, nisi iram finiret misericordia.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (-54–39 BC) Roman scholar
Book I, Chapter I; slightly modified translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 33
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