"A work well begun is half done," which has also been adopted by the Spaniards, the Italians, and the French. "Buen principio la mitad es hecho." Sp. "Chi ben commencia a la meta dell'opra finito." It. "Il est bien avancé, qui a bien commencé," he has made good progress in a business, who has begun it well. We often find great reluctance, and have much difficulty, in bringing ourselves to set about a business, but being once engaged in it, we usually then go on with pleasure, feeling ourselves interested in carrying it on to its completion. In morals, an earnest desire to be good, is in a great measure the means of becoming good.