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This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Daniel Defoe
Judging, Too Late, Cost
Daniel Defoe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics
This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.