To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.

Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

We come to beginnings only at the end

What's well begun, is half done. [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.]

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. [Lat., Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur, Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.]