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121 " We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. "
― Kim Stanley Robinson , Icehenge
122 " Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian system may be to believe or to acknowledge it, it is nevertheless true, that the age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.There was more knowledge in the world before that period, than for many centuries afterwards; and as to religious knowledge, the Christian system, as already said, was only another species of mythology; and the mythology to which it succeeded, was a corruption of an ancient system of theism.; and if we take our stand about the beginning of the sixteenth century, we look back through that long chasm, to the times of the Ancients, as over a vast sandy desert, in which not a shrub appears to intercept the vision to the fertile hills beyond. "
123 " Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity. "
― Michael Bassey Johnson , The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
124 " Reading is the beginning of knowledge acquisition. "
― Lailah Gifty Akita
125 " Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge, but understanding is the beginning of wisdom. "
126 " Success is not the end of the journey. It is the beginning of the expression of your infinite potential. "
127 " At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into something trivial and often disgusting.And the further he was from childhood, the nearer he got to the present day, the more trivial and dubious his pleasures appeared. It started with law school. That had retained a little something that was really good: there was fun, there was friendship, there was hope. But in the last years the good times had become more exceptional. Then, at the beginning of his service with the governor, some good times came again: memories of making love to a woman. Then it became all confused, and the good times were not so many. After that there were fewer still; the further he went the fewer there were.Marriage. . .an accident and such a disappointment, and his wife's bad breath, and all that sensuality and hypocrisy! And the deadlines of his working life, and those money worries, going on for a year, two years, ten, twenty - always the same old story. And the longer it went on the deadlier it became.'It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me...And now it's all over. Nothing left but to die! "
― Leo Tolstoy , The Death of Ivan Ilych
128 " Take your current success as the beginning of your journey and you will keep breaking your own records. "
― Israelmore Ayivor , 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
129 " The choice to believe in something bigger than yourself is the beginning of the transformational mastery of your success~ "
130 " If a man realizes who he is, he understands that if he must, he can start from the beginning and achieve success again "
131 " The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died. "
― Plato , The Republic
132 " Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator: single letters, and syllables uncomposed, are no better than nonsense. He who overlooketh him who is the 'Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,' and seeth not him in all who is the All of all, doth see nothing at all. All creatures, as such, are broken syllables; they signify nothing as separated from God. Were they separated actually, they would cease to be, and the separation would be annhiliation; and when we separate them in our fancies, we make nothing of them to ourselves. It is one thing to know the creatures as Aristotle, and another thing to know them as a Christian. None but a Christian can read one line of his Physics so as to understand it rightly. It is a high and excellent study, and of greater use than many apprehend; but it is the smallest part of it that Aristotle can teach us. "
― Richard Baxter , The Reformed Pastor
133 " For every great success, diligence is desirable from the beginning to the very end. "
― Lailah Gifty Akita , Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1)
134 " Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity. "
135 " I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes. "
― Laini Taylor , Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
136 " Baths, she thought, were just like her relationships, all " ooh, ah" in the beginning and then suddenly, without warning, she had to get out, out, out! "
137 " I loved him... much more than I liked him. And therein was the beginning of the end. "
― Alfa Holden , Abandoned Breaths
138 " The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours. "
139 " It's better to hate someone in the beginning rather than end up hating someone after loving. "
― Pushpa Rana ,
140 " Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it. "
― Shannon L. Alder