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• Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,
  A tale of folly and of wasted life,
  Hope against hope, the bitter dregs of strife,
  Ending, where all things end, in death at last. (William Morris) [life/start/death]
• I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. (Robert Frost) [start]
• All things truly wicked start from an innocence. (Ernest Hemingway) [start]
• If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. (Ernest Hemingway) [people/love/start]
• When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. (William Blake) [start]
• Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end. (Henry Kissinger) [needs/willpower/start]
• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. (Franklin Roosevelt) [more/start/war/start]
• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. (John Locke) [government/start/property]
• That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. (John Updike) [marriage/start]
• The hottest love has the coldest end. ( Socrates) [love/start]
• The happiness of society is the end of government. (John Adams) [happiness/society/start/government]
• Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe. () [melancholy/start/love/death]
• The end of labor is to gain leisure. ( Aristotle) [start/leisure]
• The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. ( Aristotle) [start]
• Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. ( Aristotle) [start/science/politics]
• If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) [start/start]
• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) [willpower/start/willpower/content]
• In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) [start/content/start]
• In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) [thinking/start/willpower/start]
• Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? (John Barrymore) [start]
• If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects. (Jean Baudrillard) [more/start/point]
• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains. (Jean Baudrillard) [start/culture/culture/agility]
• Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. (Henry Ward Beecher) [start/life/life]
• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. (Walter Benjamin) [art/start/truth/wisdom]
• The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. (Georges Bernanos) [corruption/society/start]
• When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. (William Blake) [start]
• I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. (William Blake) [start]
• The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. (Leon Blum) [fear/start]
• When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. ( Napoleon I) [men/attempt/start]
• A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another. (Paul Bourget) [experience/start/love]
• One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. (Paul Bourget) [start/thinking]

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