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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. "
The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literati - 252. oldal
szerző: Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850
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The Elements of Character

Mary Greene Chandler Ware - 1854 - 254 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...

Clara Morison [by C.H. Spence].

Catherine Helen Spence - 1854 - 276 oldal
...for love, it was of no consequence, she would not have such a palliation. ' Excuse me, Mr. Bantam ; if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well If you mean to play whist, you must attend to the rules of the game; it is a game of skill as well...

Maternal counsels to a daughter

Matilda Marian Chesney Pullan - 1855 - 312 oldal
...this, it should be a woman's aim to do everything, no matter how trivial, in the best possible manner. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. The universal introduction of envelopes has obviated much of the difficulty that used to exist in folding...

The Elements of Character

Mary Greene Ware - 1856 - 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 eyeservants, but faithful in all things. Thoroughness pervades whatever they do, in all...

The Popular Educator, 5. kötet

1856 - 428 oldal
...time they discontinue their Greek studies. Here in a special manner should the learner bear in mind that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. The labour may be severe and somewhat irksome, but far greater and far more disagreeable is the labour...

The British Millennial Harbinger

1857 - 594 oldal
...settiug in order a church in a locality like the eity of Manchester ? There is a true and pert saying, that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. How forcibly this applies to the subject in question, you are well able to judge. Look at the examples...

Ella, Or Turning Over a New Leaf

William Simonds - 1857 - 350 oldal
...have noticed another fault of yours, and that is, you are rather apt to slight your work. My motto is, if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." "Mother has often talked to me about that," said Ella. " I suppose the trouble with me, is, I always...

Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, 27. kötet,1872. rész

Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1873 - 750 oldal
...recommendation — no blood, or no appearance, in fact, with nothing at all to commend them but their cheapness. If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well, but our economical farmers overlook it, they are so intent on saving a few dollars for the present...

Clinton

Walter Aimwell - 1859 - 306 oldal
...like most other seeds. Mr. Davenport always did thoroughly whatever he undertook. His motto was, " If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well ; " and a very good motto it is. Clinton sometimes thought his father was more particular about his work than...

Winter Evenings, 2. kötet

Leitch Ritchie - 1859 - 380 oldal
...respectable in his degree. It is an old saying, and deserves more attention than it usually receives, that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. We may be dissatisfied with our present employment ; we may consider that we are fit for something...




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