A Quote by Horace

Half is done when the beginning is done. — © Horace
Half is done when the beginning is done.

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Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
I kept trying, proposing, pushing... If you want to succeed, you cannot leave work half done, and unfortunately, many things were left half done. The choice was made not to launch a second wave of economic reforms that I was proposing.
Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning.
By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.
I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
I always said if a man would have done half the records that I've done, we would know about it. But we don't know all the records I've done for other artists.
It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done - the highest - so well is the least deed done; and all thing in its property and in the order that our Lord hath ordained it to from without beginning. For there is no doer but He.
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