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Beginnings

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For this is action, this not being sure, this careless
Preparing, sowing the seeds crooked in the furrow,
Making ready to forget, and always coming back
To the mooring of starting out, that day so long ago.

John Ashbery

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Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(Which was rather late for me)—
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.

Philip Larkin

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All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy

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Parvis e glandibus quercus [Tall oaks from little acorns grow].

Anonymous: Latin

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Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

Walt Whitman

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At last he rose, and twitch’d his mantle blue:
Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.

John Milton

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Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

William Shakespeare

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