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Well begun is half done.

Aristotle

Politics

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 5.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 5.

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The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

Proverbs 13:19

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 13:19).

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For it is commonly said: completed labors are pleasant.

Cicero

De Finibus

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De finibus bonorum et malorum [On the ends of good and evil]. c. 45 BCE, bk. 2, ch. 32, sect. 105.

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To do two things at once is to do neither.

Publilius Syrus

Sententiae

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

New England Reformers

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "New England Reformers." American Anti-Slavery Society meeting. 3 Mar. 1844, Amory Hall, Boston, MA, USA.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "New England Reformers (1844)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Francis Drake

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Drake, Francis. Dispatch to Francis Walsingham. 17 May 1587, Francis Drake's ship, Iberian coasts between Lisbon and Cape St. Vincent. Dispatch.

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I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Three Men in a Boat. London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, ch. 15.

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Jerome, Jerome Klapa. "Three Men in a Boat." Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, edited by Jeremy Lewis. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 15.