...district, but in the management of its school affairs it is a model. Its board of directors believe that if "a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well," and they are determined toso arrange their schools as to give them the greatest possible efficiency. They...

...consequence to finish. I always like to finish anything I commence ; I never like to do anything by halves. If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well. If a dream is worth dreaming at all it is worth dreaming thoroughly. I try to continue my dream, I...

...the most necessary qualifications of a Sunday school teacher. We refer to regularity of attendance. " If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well," says the proverb, but it is a sad truth that many connected with Sunday schools attend so irregularly,...

...Ernest. " I will tell you why, sister," replied Ernest. " I take pains because my teacher tells me, that, if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." " Did he mean that we should try to do well even in trifles?" asked Winifred. " Yea," answered Ernest,...

...in everything ; not only in business, but even in pleasures. It has been often and most truly said, that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. Whatever, therefore, you undertake, either with your mind or body, do it with all your might. Even...

...half — or, perhaps, in less proportion than this — improving the whole. To nothing is the axiom, " If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing thoroughly well," so applicable as to the soil — an axiom too often forgot both by proprietors and...

...hot bed or in the border on account of the danger of drying up. The ancient maxim again comes up, " that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." So in plant culture it is just as easy to do it right as wrong. The soil should be light and sandy;...

...nothing slurred over, nor done in slovenly fashion. The builder acted upon that excellent principle, " If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." He had no workmen under him ; he was architect, carpenter, bricklayer, painter — all in one ; inside...

...materials put in places where they would not be seen. The builder acted on that excellent principle, " If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." (617) 9 He had no workman under him : he was architect, carpenter, bricklayer, plasterer, painter,...

...on which the sun had been shining for many hours, and even terrestrial days. An old proverb says, " If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well," and in accordance with it I determined to turn to some account, if possible, my moon-gazing. Among the...