A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

empty see also BETTER are small fish than an empty dish; don’t THROW the baby out with the bathwater.
enchantment see DISTANCE lends enchantment to the view.
The END crowns the work
Cf. L. finis coronat opus, the end crowns the work; 15th-cent. Fr. la fin loe I'a’uvre, the end praises the work.

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  1509 H. WATSON Ship of Fools Dd1 For the ende crowneth. 1592 G. DELAMOTHE French Alphabet II. 29 The end doth crowne the worke. .. La fin couronne 1’reuvre. 1602
  

SHAKESPEARE Troilus & Cressida IV. v. 223 The end crowns all; And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. 1820 SCOTT Abbot I. xiii. As the end crowns the work, it also forms the rule by which it must be ultimately judged. 1870 DICKENS Edwin Drood xviii. Proof, sir, proof, must be built up stone by stone. .. As I say, the end crowns the work. 1961 J. WEBB One for my Dame iii. That the end should crown the work, that I had given no more lies than I had been told made no difference. You either played it straight or you didn’t. "finality
The END justifies the means
Cf. OVID Heroides ii. 85 exitus acta probat, the outcome justifies the deeds. The negative of this is also often asserted.

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  1583 G. BABINGTON Exposition of Commandments 260 The ende good, doeth not by and by make the meanes good. 1718 M. PRIOR Literary Works (1971) I. 186 The End must justify the Means: He only Sins who Ill intends. 1941 ‘H. BAILEY’ Smiling Corpse 238 ‘The police don’t like to have their bodies moved.’.. ‘In this case the end justifies the means.’ 2001 Washington Times 2 Aug. A16 The conservatives’ war on drugs is an example of good intentions that have had unfortunate consequences. As often happens with noble causes, the end justifies the means, and the means of the drug war are inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution and our civil liberties. "action and consequence
  

end see also (noun) ALL good things must come to an end; the DEVIL can quote Scripture for his own ends; EVERYTHING has an end; he who WILLS the end, wills the means; (verb) all’s WELL that ends well.