 | 1923 - 850 oldal
...intervals from my earliest youth right up to my present advanced age. How many times have I not been told that 'If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well'? Never was there a more untruthful word spoken in earnest. For the world is full of things that are... | |
 | 1922 - 754 oldal
...benevolences as was given before the building work began. All of which may illustrate the common remark, "If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well." All the churches and especially our denomination are to be congratulated on the good work of this pastor,... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1849 - 312 oldal
...it? " " Why be at the bore of shooting at all, for that matter?" replied Harry. "I, for one, think that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well — and I can't bear to kill a hundred or a hundred and fifty birds, as our party almost always do out here,... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1849 - 76 oldal
...of the appointed task, and yet not enough for it to bear the closer and more searching test of time. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well—worth doing well, because then we can look on it with that feeling of conscious satisfaction... | |
 | George Walker - 1850 - 142 oldal
...Queen, and end just as they began. This is laughable enough to the bystander, who naturally conceives that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well ; and the King and Queen, alone, I repeat, can give the Mate equally as well in nine moves as in ninety ; the... | |
 | George W. Johnson - 1850 - 434 oldal
...do, do it with all thy might." This shews us that whatever we undertake should be done thoroughly—" If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing it well." No pains should be spared, no trouble grudged, wliich will help to make the earnings of the... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1851 - 228 oldal
...it?" '- Why be at the bore of shooting at all, for that matter ?" replied Harry—" I, for one, think that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well—and I can't bear to kill a hundred or a hundred and fifty birds, as our party almost always... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1852 - 164 oldal
...when he proceeds to more complicated examples, from drawing difficult outlines incorrectly? We hold that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and how can a pupil do a thing correctly, unless from correct models or rules? and how can he ascertain... | |
 | Mary Greene Ware - 1854 - 248 oldal
...propriety in them which is disturbed by things badly done, and which gives them an almost intuitive faith, that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. They are not eye-servants, but faithful in all things. Thoroughness pervades whatever they do, in all... | |
 | George Wagner - 1854 - 178 oldal
...you? Remember, my young friend, that you ought always to try to do thoroughly well, whatever you do. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and to do a thing well, we must always take pains. Make it a rule, then, to do every thing as well as possible.... | |
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He acts upon the principle that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well: — and the thing that he "does" especially well is the public. 
