"A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works."
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"Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness."
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"The highest end of government is the culture of men."
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"The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house."
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"Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations."
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"Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end."
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"But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it."
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"I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery."
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"Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment."
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"Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends."
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"Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks."
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"(About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts."
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"Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end."
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"I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end."
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"Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends."
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"I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up."
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"Nap time over. Gonna go be active. Do it people!!! In the end all you have is your health."
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"It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end."
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"No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge."
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"There is no end to learning, but there are many beginnings."
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