"To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started."
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"I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher"
"I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end."
"Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had."
"The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function."
"[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain."
"The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to."
"Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end."
"Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own"
"Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden."
"Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's."
"Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end."
"Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?"
"What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?"
"With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century"
"I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie."
"Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him."
"Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end."
"But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end."
"For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded."