| Warner Taylor - American essays - 1923 - 532 pages
...waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor...not only in finished undertakings that we ought to honor useful labor. A spirit goes out of the man who means execution, which outlives the most untimely... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - Literature - 1923 - 284 pages
...quibbling all this is!" ..." It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room. By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates over a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. . . . For surely, at... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - Anthologies - 1923 - 252 pages
...quibbling all this is! " ..." It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room. By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates over a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. . . . For surely, at... | |
| Martin James Stormzand, Michael Vincent O'Shea - English language - 1924 - 234 pages
...damning you all the while for your importunity?" — Ibid. (g) Complex-imperative. — "Even if your doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates...push, and see what can be accomplished in a week." — Stevenson, "Aes Triplex." (h) Complex-exclamatory. — "Only, what a chequered picnic we have of... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish literature - 1911 - 288 pages
...waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor...means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may... | |
| Geological Society of America - Geology - 1925 - 764 pages
..."Virginibus Puerisque": "It is not only In finished undertakings that we ought to honor useful labor. A spirit goes out of the man who means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts have done good work, although they may... | |
| Louis Wann - American essays - 1926 - 564 pages
...gathers impetus begin your folio; even if the doctor does as he runs, until, if he be running towards not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and cally on the distinction between prose and see what can be accomplished in a week, verse, prose and... | |
| Warner Taylor - American essays - 1927 - 668 pages
...waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom. By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor...not only in finished undertakings that we ought to honor useful labor. A spirit goes out of the man who means execution, which outlives the most untimely... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1925 - 360 pages
...waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it than to die daily in the sick-room. By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor...means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts have done good work, although they may... | |
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