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WELL BEGUN IS HALF DONE

Specialty Definition: WELL BEGUN IS HALF DONE

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Literature

Well Begun is Half Done "The beginning is half the whole." (Pythagoras.)
French: "Heureux commencement est la moitiéde l'oeuvre." "Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coûe."
Latin: "Incipe dimidium facti est coepisse." (Ausonius.
"Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet." Horace.
"Facilius est incitare currentem, quam commovere languentem." (Cicero.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: WELL BEGUN IS HALF DONE

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Aristotle

Well begun is half done.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: WELL BEGUN IS HALF DONE

Language Translations for "WELL BEGUN IS HALF DONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

s chutí do toho a pùl je hototvo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellway egunbay isay alfhay oneday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Familiar
2. Translations: Modern
3. Bibliography


  

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