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He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.


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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
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DEYTH BANGER He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE Thou has done a deed whereat valour will weep.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Science is interesting... Albert Eistein has said that he believe in religion, and he has said "Scie...
DEYTH BANGER Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").
HORACE He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
KARL KRAUS It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has...
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SAVI SHARMA A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
EMILY BRONTë He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has ...
SINCLAIR LEWIS The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the firs...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
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TINY TIM Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door.
His name, as I ought to have told you before,
Is reall...
T.S. ELIOT You don't know what in reality has happen...!?
DEYTH BANGER He who is well prepared has half won the battle.
PROVERB In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.
CHRIS FARLEY A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the o...
EMILY BRONTE He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor, He who hath mingled in the fray ...
ALEXANDER ANTON VON AUERSPERG ("ANASTASIUS GRUN") Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown...
JOHN HURT You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional an...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON He has been a guy who has been talked about as a rotation guy. We haven't done it yet.
RAY TANNER The man who has done his best has done everything.
CHARLES M. SCHWAB Stefan made a fantastic save in the first half and has put in solid performances since he came into ...
GLENN HODDLE He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how...
DEYTH BANGER He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
JOHANN VON SCHILLER It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits h...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits h...
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
T.S. ELIOT No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty.
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THOMAS WOLFE He actually made a pretty good pitch to Manny. But, as you know, Manny has done that before.
BUDDY BELL He has gone unnoticed, but he has done a good job.
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FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
HAROLD HOLZER He is the English Horace,
ALEXANDER POPE He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God...
ISAAC NEWTON Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a sing...
HOMER He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping...
ARTHUR BALFOUR He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping...
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR We had an incumbent ... who couldn't think of a mistake he has made in four years and a challenger ....
BILL PLANTE Vaughan is a very good player who has done a great job as Test captain but he has always got injury ...
DEAN JONES I think he has done quite well. A lot of times he could have done better. He has been hesitant.
GREG FEALY Cheap is the love that has a price.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none,...
CHARLES MACKAY He has made a point. he has proven what he can do.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS He who is satisfied with what he has, is a rich man. -Nabil N. Jamal
NABIL N. JAMAL A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten w...
CLAUDE RAINS There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past...
DEYTH BANGER My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work.
DEYTH BANGER A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. He leads the team in scoring, and he has opened the door for Drew Garner, who has scored in double d...
HOWARD MCNEILL He has a terrific way with women. I don't think he has missed more than half a dozen.
FREDRIC MARCH A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
FRED ESTABROOK A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
FRED ESTABROOK God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed with the currency time
SUNDAY ADELAJA He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent pat...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Steve has played in the back row a number of times and every time he has, he has done extremely well...
BUDGE POUNTNEY If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it,...
THOMAS WOLFE God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his h...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well ...
THOMAS KEMPIS If Tim McVeigh is such a monster, why didn't he shoot the cop when he pulled him over? ... ...if McV...
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HAJO FUNKE It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th...
APURVA GAGLANI He has done a great service to the district.
DUNCAN WEBB The governor has said from the beginning, if this cannot be done cleanly, he's not interested in it,
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DOUGLAS ADAMS He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.
ARABIC PROVERB He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.
PROVERB He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
THOMAS CARLYLE A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
MARCUS AURELIUS A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
ELBERT HUBBARD One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain...
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GREG SCHMIDT The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he ...
RUSSELL LYNES The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that h...
RUSSELL LYNES The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
OWEN ARTHUR Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
ALBERT EINSTEIN He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)

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HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
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HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
HORACE Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
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HORACE A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
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HORACE One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by differ...
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HORACE Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as ga...
HORACE He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HORACE Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
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HORACE Labor diligently to increase your property.
HORACE Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
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HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. HORACE Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
HORACE Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
HORACE You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers...
HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
HORACE One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instr...
HORACE Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
HORACE How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which c...
HORACE Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
HORACE Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
HORACE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
HORACE Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless...
HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HORACE It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
HORACE Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
HORACE Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
HORACE Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
HORACE You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
HORACE The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...
HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
HORACE Anger is short madness
HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be short.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
HORACE A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
HORACE How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
HORACE He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving ot...
HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
HORACE To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
HORACE Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
HORACE He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
HORACE Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they wi...
HORACE The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the light...
HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
HORACE Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity ...
HORACE Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up,...
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
HORACE Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE There is nothing assured to mortals.
HORACE This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are a...
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
HORACE I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
HORACE Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
HORACE Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
HORACE I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
HORACE The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poe...
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
HORACE Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
HORACE He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
HORACE In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns up...
HORACE Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
HORACE Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction a...
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain d...
HORACE Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
HORACE In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
HORACE Buy the rumor and sell the fact
HORACE No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slo...
HORACE The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at
HORACE It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...
HORACE Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of w...
HORACE He who is greedy is always in want.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
HORACE Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the ...
HORACE Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, be...
HORACE It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE The pen is the tongue of the mind.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dor...
HORACE Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
HORACE Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he ...
HORACE The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous ...
HORACE Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
HORACE Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE Make a good use of the present.
HORACE To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come a...
HORACE The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE The covetous man is ever in want.
HORACE Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
HORACE It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
HORACE He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
HORACE There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right canno...
HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
HORACE Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
HORACE Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
HORACE I will not add another word.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out be...
HORACE Faults are soon copied.
HORACE In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HORACE In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
HORACE A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doi...
HORACE The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
HORACE It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE There is measure in all things.
HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
HORACE You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented m...
HORACE Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
HORACE The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
HORACE Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
HORACE It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
HORACE I shall not altogether die.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
HORACE Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
HORACE Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine
HORACE Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE He always hurries to the issue, rushing his readers into the middle of the story as if they knew it ...
HORACE A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE