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I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
N. B.: This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end.
-Bible
Psalm 119: 96
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The summer day is closed - the sun is set:
Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
The latest of whose train goes softly out
In the red west. The green blade of the ground
Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig
Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun;
Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown
And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil,
From bursting cells, and in their graves await
Their resurrection. Insects from the pools
Have filled the air awhile with humming wings,
That now are still for ever; painted moths
Have wandered the blue sky, and died again
-William Cullen Bryant
An Evening Revery
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Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken,
and yet the cold blue word is spoken:
say goodbye now to the Sun,
the days of love and leaves are done.
-R.P.T. (Robert Peter Tristram) Coffin
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The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.
-Dan Cook, "The Washington Post", June 13, 1978
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Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
-Tom Cruise
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All that's behind us. But now they want to know how it feels not to have that question asked. Now they can go along and bug Terry Labonte and Rusty Wallace and some of these other guys who haven't won it. It's definitely special to win the Daytona 500. Now when Darrell (Waltrip) and me are sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch when we're both about 70, he can't say, 'I won it and you didn't'.
Said before the 1999 Daytona 500. Dale was killed instantly in a crash on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500 (Feb. 18)
-Dale Earnhardt
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, "Four Quartets"
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
-Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man, 1952
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He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
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-Ellen Goodman
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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now it's complete because it's ended here'.
-Frank Herbert
Muad'Dib in Dune
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The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing.
-Source Unknown
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Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
-Paul Ambroise Valery
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Books about Endings
