Begun Quotes
706 Begun quotes by 574 unique authors
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We doin it big. Look at what I done. Look at where I'm is. It's only just begun.
— Drake
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame…
— Blaise Pascal
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What's well begun is half done.
— Horace
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed…
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not…
— Thomas Merton
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I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush…
— John Keats
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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this…
— John Herschel
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And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun:…
— Frederic Bastiat
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When I arrived at the point where I received public acclaim, I felt the most lowly, because I knew within myself that I had but…
— Walter Russell
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Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender…
— Thomas Huxley
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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it…
— Lewis Thomas
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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
— Horace Walpole
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Things are achieved when they are well begun.
— George Eliot
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