 My meaning simply is , that whatever I have tried to do in life , I have tried with all my heart to do well ; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that, in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly...  Reaching the Children: A Book for Teachers and Parents - Side 71af Henry C. Krebs - 1916 - 127 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William M. Thayer - 1893 - 446 sider
...assembly in London, when at the zenith of his fame : " I have tried with all my heart to do well; and whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small I have always been thoroughly in earnest. I have never believed it... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 558 sider
...him. I do not hold one natural gift, I dare say, that I have not abused. My meaning simply is that, whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well ; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely ; that in great aims... | |
 | James Mason Hoppin - 1894 - 416 sider
...apt to ascribe genius that produces its results spontaneously and without labour, said of himself: "Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well. What I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely. Never to put one hand to anything... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 392 sider
...slouchiness " or " slighting" one's work. " Whatever I have tried to do in life," said a successful man, " I have tried with all my heart to do well; whatever...small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest." Build slow and sure ; 'tis for life, young man. In the elder days of art, Builders wrought with greatest... | |
 | John Sidney Stoddard, Lucy A. Yendes - 1899 - 292 sider
...spirit and the courtesy of his manner." "Be thoroughly in earnest. Charles Dickens once said of himself: 'Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried...small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.'" "Give yourself a thorough preparation for the work you have chosen as a life-employment. It does not... | |
 | Robert Needham Cust - 1899 - 494 sider
...myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor " should come upon its heels." " Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my " heart to do well ; to whatever I devoted myself to, I have devoted " myself to completely ; in great aims and in small... | |
 | William C. King - 1900 - 680 sider
...genins, yet this is his testimony concerning himself: " I have tried with all my heart to do. well; and whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted...in small I have always been thoroughly in earnest. I have never believed it possible that any natural or improved ability can claim immunity from the... | |
 | James Laughlin Hughes - 1900 - 344 sider
...how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed. My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that, in great aims and... | |
 | William Smythe Babcock Mathews - 1900 - 788 sider
...pupil for whose education he is responsible ; and in the end let him say, with Dickens: "In all that I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well ; in all I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely ; in great aims and in small... | |
 | William Williams - 1890 - 360 sider
...TRANSPOSING. DIRECTION. — Render the following in different phraseology as illustrated in the Lesson. devoted myself to completely. In great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. 2. It was a mystery to many people why Governor Briggs, of Massachusetts, wore a cravat but no collar.... | |
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