...intervals 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 are...

...benevolences as was given before the building work began. All of which may illustrate the common remark, "If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well." All the churches and especially our denomination are to be congratulated on the good work of this pastor,...

...it? " " Why be at the bore of shooting at all, for that matter?" replied Harry. "I, for one, think that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well — and I can't bear to kill a hundred or a hundred and fifty birds, as our party almost always do out here,...

...of the appointed task, and yet not enough for it to bear the closer and more searching test of time. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well—worth doing well, because then we can look on it with that feeling of conscious satisfaction...

...Queen, and end just as they began. This is laughable enough to the bystander, who naturally conceives that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well ; and the King and Queen, alone, I repeat, can give the Mate equally as well in nine moves as in ninety ; the...

...do, do it with all thy might." This shews us that whatever we undertake should be done thoroughly—" If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing it well." No pains should be spared, no trouble grudged, wliich will help to make the earnings of the...

...it?" '- Why be at the bore of shooting at all, for that matter ?" replied Harry—" I, for one, think that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well—and I can't bear to kill a hundred or a hundred and fifty birds, as our party almost always...

...when he proceeds to more complicated examples, from drawing difficult outlines incorrectly? We hold that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and how can a pupil do a thing correctly, unless from correct models or rules? and how can he ascertain...

...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...

...you? Remember, my young friend, that you ought always to try to do thoroughly well, whatever you do. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well; and to do a thing well, we must always take pains. Make it a rule, then, to do every thing as well as possible....