"The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions."
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"We deliberate not about ends, but about means."
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"A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end."
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"horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle"
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"I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that."
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"Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest."
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"In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows."
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"The end of culture is right living"
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"I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil."
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"All's well if all ends well."
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"Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end."
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"For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done."
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"All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown."
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"For what I will, I will, and there an end."
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"A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in."
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"Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs."
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"Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning."
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"In my beginning is my end."
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"The argument is at an end."
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"There is no end to the deceits of the past."
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