make a beginning

The poet Eliot also wrote, “To make an end is to make a beginning.”

“I have discovered something I can do that will benefit mankind,” Donald Trump says, “and I’m going to do that. I understand that atonement is a path. For me to expect people to give me credit for having changed would be too much to ask. I don’t want credit. I just want in some small way to undo what I have done. I realize that this is impossible but it will be the one work of my life. To make a beginning. That’s all I can do, make a beginning.”

“This friend,” I pursued, “is trying to get on in commercial life, but has no money, and finds it difficult and disheartening to make a beginning. Now I want somehow to help him to a beginning.”

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.”

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.”