Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.


Muriel Rukeyser

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The beginnings of all things are small. [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
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Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.

Beginnings happen because there are endings.
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Beginnings do not divulge their ends,
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSON
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDEN
From small beginnings come great things.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
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Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
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Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest
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The majority of men are bundles of beginnings
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Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, / By all their country's wishes blest!
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Beginnings are always messy
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All great men had simple beginnings.
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Forget everything you've done. Start over.
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Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest.
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Don't nourish your fears more than you nourish your hopes.
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Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
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The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.
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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.
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'Tis not for mortals always to be blest.
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Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest.
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