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«Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.»

Author: Abe Lemons (Coach) | Keywords: finish, idiot, league, medical, medical school

«Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Problems | Keywords: absurdities, As You, Begin, Better Days, blundered, blundering, blunders, could, creep in, creep up, crept, Day, Day After Tomorrow, done, done with, doubt, each, each day, finish, finish up, forget, I doubt it, new, no doubt, serenely, shall, soon, The Day After Tomorrow, tomorrow, well

«Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.»

Author: Helen Rowland | Keywords: awake, finish, go home, go to, go to sleep, marriage, sleep

«As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!»

Author: Albert Camus (Essayist, Novelist, Playwright) | Keywords: accompany, Arab, as usual, beneath, evening, finish, no end, phosphorescent, sadness, streak, streaked, streaks, sumptuous, swelled, swells, swell up, swollen, symbols, this evening, usual, waters, writes

«A tiger never returns to his prey he did not finish off.»

Author: Chinese Proverbs | Keywords: finish, finish off, prey, preyed, preying, preys, returns, tiger

«A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.»

Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Actors and acting, Books | Keywords: acting, began, commence, commenced, commences, finish, Good Book, hint, hinted, hinting, hints, lay, teaches

«Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.»

Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | Keywords: finish, gentleman, reflection

«Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: each day, finish, interpose, interposed, interposing, next, sleep, solid, solidest, temperance, the next, wall

«Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark»

Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: finish

«Give us the tools, and we will finish the job»

Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | Keywords: finish, The Job, tools

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