respice finem Phrase
Meaning:
look back at the end
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i.e., "have regard for the end" or "consider the end". Generally a memento mori, a warning to remember one's death. Motto of Homerton College, Cambridge, Trinity College, Kandy, Georgetown College in Kentucky , Turnbull High School, Glasgow, and the London Oratory School.
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