| Robert Morris Copeland - 1866 - 944 páginas
...second, this is not a treatise on police management. The directions I shall give are based on the belief that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and that we know that any kind of horticulture is attended by difficulties. Whoever wishes to have his... | |
| John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young - 1868 - 668 páginas
...of which he was a life-long member. "Mr. Lewis was a, thorough business man. He held, with Franklin, that 'What is worth doing at all, is worth doing well ;' and no man could finish up and complete, ' with all the points guarded,' as he used to remark, a transaction... | |
| Thomas Joseph Potter - 1869 - 360 páginas
...simple form of sermon, and without which he should not dare to appear before his flock. The general laws that " What is worth doing at all is worth doing well," and " That nothing is done well without trouble and labour," suffer no exception in the case of the Sunday's... | |
| George Washington Moon - 1869 - 310 páginas
...he thinks that the public will be satisfied with this explanation. Carelessness admits of no excuse. What is worth doing at all, is worth doing well ; and, if we are justified in looking for perfection in language in any book, it certainly is in one which has... | |
| 730 páginas
...with Mr. Mason, would have something in it rather novel, and I think somewhat indecorous. It may be said that " what is worth doing at all is worth doing well;" and if this holds good as to men in general, it holds good as regards monarchs : granted, but there are things... | |
| 520 páginas
...and the same idea I held then keeps possession of my mind to this day. I quite agree in the maxim, that what is worth doing at all, is worth doing well ; and certainly what a nobleman does should be well done. If he keeps foxhounds, they should be as near perfection... | |
| 1871 - 304 páginas
...bee-men, for they would not " see themselves as others see them." But there are other men who believe that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and if the honey bee will pay for cultivating, that is the best kind which pays the beat — the ultimate... | |
| Illinois State Agricultural Society - 1859 - 742 páginas
...kind — and who practice, in the general management of their farming affairs, upon the old adage, that " what is worth doing at all is worth doing well," and upon the equally trite saying, that " a Btitch in time saves nine." A knowledge and practice of the... | |
| 1872 - 860 páginas
...Costa afforded a guarantee. Mr. Mapleson's chef d'nrche.ttre has given abundant proofs of his belief that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well ; and he simply furnished another by means of the excellent ensemble of Tuesday night. We donotsay that the... | |
| 1873 - 734 páginas
...farmer, it is with no unkindly feeling ; as I shall endeavour to show you by advocating good farming, that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and no one will accuse me of not having struck bad farming at the tap-root, simply with the desire that... | |
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