Beginning

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    What we call birth
    Is but a beginning to be something else
    Than what we were before; and when we cease
    To be that something, then we call it death.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places: all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 24:7,8.

    The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.
    Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)