| 1912 - 350 páginas
...matters of legislation, there has been altogether too much inconsistency. Someone, I think, has said that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. Rather than do it half-way, do not do it at all. We should never enter into anything in a legislative... | |
| Elizabeth Appleton - 1815 - 362 páginas
...may be in haste when there is a necessity for it, but never in a hurry (which you often are); for, if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." ther they are matters from which one may draw a good inference. I am fond of noticing goodness... | |
| 1823 - 486 páginas
...wish to produce the greatest effect, we must limit ourselves to one. Or to advert to a common adage, " if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." If a doctrine is important enough to Ъе inculcated, it is important enough to be inculcated... | |
| 1823 - 458 páginas
...divided, 'or let more time be devoted to the objects of its meeting. It is an old and useful adage, if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. Or if neither of these courses sf cm advisable, let the business commence at 9 o'clock on the... | |
| 1832 - 780 páginas
...volume of gas for temperature. The following rule may, therefore, be used to estimate in-hat would lie the volume of any portion of gas, if brought to the...made of tin, a section of which is here represented. (Jig. 126.) In this figure, a is a cylindrical vessel of tin, about 15 in. in diameter, and 6 in. deep... | |
| Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1879 - 484 páginas
...in Liverpool, and one who sought to excel in all that ho undertook. But as his favourite maxim was " If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well," profit was often lost sight of in the desire to attain this object. The subject of this notice... | |
| Robert Gardiner Hill - 1839 - 222 páginas
...Attendants, as may ensure persons of character and respectability. But here it may be truly said, ' If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well ! ' If it be worth while to provide an Asylum for the Insane, it is worth while also to render... | |
| Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1872 - 906 páginas
...attention than the cattle-stock, and are as varied in colour as they are untraceable in breed. Surely, if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well, and we would strongly urge the desirability of bestowing more pains on these useful and highly... | |
| John William Carleton - 1841 - 522 páginas
...notice what may be considered trifles ; but old Johnson's aphorism always comes across me ; viz., that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. I twice saw him get on his box from the wrong side of his horses ; namely, on the left, instead... | |
| 1923 - 850 páginas
...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... | |
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