 | B. C. Ravenscroft - 1883 - 234 strani
...inadmissible for trees, as it causes a soft and rank growth which does more harm than good. So that on the principle " that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well," which we always follow and recommend, by far the best plan is to bring some nice fresh loam from the... | |
 | Pembridge - 1883 - 112 strani
...there is, — don't lie down, and let it kick you. Always' play with reasonable care and attention : if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well ; and when you hold cards which you do not consider quite equal to your deserts, instead of playing worse... | |
 | 1883 - 420 strani
...books as a proof of sagacity on the part of Mr. Swinton and his publishers, who are wise enough to see that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well.' No expense has been spared, as the provincial managers say, and the result has been scores of good... | |
 | John Petch Hewby - 1883 - 108 strani
...there is, — don't lie down, and let it kick you. Always play with reasonable care and attention : if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well ; and when you hold cards which you do not consider quite equal to your deserts, instead of playing worse... | |
 | 1883 - 642 strani
...sufficient to content them and make them regard teaching as their permanent occupation. If education is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and the quality of the teachers is at the foundation of the whole system." Vet a third governor, Horatio Seymour,... | |
 | 1883 - 748 strani
...sufficient to content them and make them regard teaching as their permanent occupation. If education is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and the quality of the teachers is at the foundation of the whole system." Yet a third governor, Horatio Seymour,... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1884 - 570 strani
...namely, that whenever work is to bo done it should be done in the best and most complete way possible. If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well. And well done work ia that which is alone satisfactory. And ко far from involving the greatest trouble,... | |
 | E W. Winterbotham - 1884 - 114 strani
...any uphill work before him ? Don't be so easily turned back. Half-hearted work isn't worth having. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. Whatever you do, put your heart and strength into it. I don't like fighting. Nine times in ten —... | |
 | Anna Davis Hallowell - 1884 - 608 strani
...letting them know it, to me appears strange, and I doubt the rectitude of the step ; because if the thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well, and in the present mode it will not be any more than half done. The distinction that is made in the power... | |
 | Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1885 - 800 strani
...taken the first prizes. To judge from the character of the exhibits he has made, he evidently believes that " if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well." We have certainly seen abundant proofs of this at frequent exhibitions, and of his skill in producing... | |
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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. 
