Well begun is half done

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1. A good beginning almost assures success.

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Well begun is half done

More hopefully, Phillips took it to mean: "Well begun is half done."

From Time Magazine Archive

Well begun is half done: in undertaking the examination of any argument from authority, a formal syllogism is a good beginning.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto

"Well begun is half done" is a saying that applies with peculiar fitness to special feature articles.

From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

Ah, but Hesiod, your own authority, tells us, Well begun is half done; so we may safely call you half-way by this time.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler

Instead of putting his confidence in the maxim "Well begun is half done," the author must rely on another which may be expressed as "Well ended is much mended."

From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Edward Fordham Spence

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