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Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

The meaning of life is that it ends

I am dust and my story ends here.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [...

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Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!”In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of...

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Architecture begins where engineering ends.

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. B...

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The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What po...

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William Barrett (philosopher)The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like...

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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...

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Elizabeth GaskellMy Lady Ludlow and Other Stories