 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 in earnest.  Dickens as an Educator - Sivu 227tekijä(t) James Laughlin Hughes - 1900 - 319 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Charles Dickens - 1910 - 426 sivua
...toiled at everything he undertook) literally according to the rule written down in David Copperfield: "Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well. Whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely. Never to put one hand to anything... | |
 | Frances Sankstone Mintz - 1911 - 138 sivua
...Habit is a cable ; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. HORACE MANN. 19 Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well ; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely ; in great aims and in small,... | |
 | 1912 - 204 sivua
...are leaving our elementary schools at the end of the course, and are meeting that need effectively. Whatever I have tried to do in life I have tried with all my heart to do well. Whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely: in great aims and in small... | |
 | 1914 - 690 sivua
...Dickens that some people may not care for but that others will thank us for publishing: "Whatsoever 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 deOhio Educational Monthly. voted myself to completely. Never... | |
 | Henry C. Krebs - 1916 - 144 sivua
...for all time. An extract that is strong, and at the same time simple, is this from Charles Dickens: "Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; in great aims and in small,... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1918 - 414 sivua
...expressing Dickens's own habits of life, also shows his fixedness of purpose, " Whatever I have had to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do...small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest." It is not to be wondered at then, that with such devotion to whatever he was doing, while his successes... | |
 | Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - 1918 - 546 sivua
...without a thought of fame," but only of the work itself, and with Dickens could truthfully add — "Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well, whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely." John Wesley Powell's life... | |
 | Gustavus Sylvester Kimball - 1918 - 130 sivua
...with all my heart to do well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest." Nelson said: "I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before time."... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1919 - 916 sivua
...his breast, and defeating 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...completely ; that in great aims and in small, I have always 568 David Copperfield been thoroughly in earnest I have never believed it possible that any natural... | |
 | 1921 - 1112 sivua
...the part of President Gompers to defend himself, • is it oeoESvarr. The record suffices. ' I fame tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do I: that whaflMcr I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely: that is (teat aims... | |
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