"No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life."
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"We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end."
"You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it."
"Begin with another's to end with your own."
"No, I'd probably end up spitting it out over everybody."
"For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter."
"Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing."
"The whole end of speech is to be understood."
"I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering."
"The good is the end toward which all things tend."
"When we deliberate it is about means and not ends."
"At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy."
"After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive."
"You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk."
"Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.""
"Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph."
"Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness."
"The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office."
"You have reached the end of cake"
"The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue."