We may say it is better to have tried and failed, than never to have tried at all, and in saying that, we still have at the bottom of it the real idea of success. Canada Lancet - Page 3531892Full view - About this book
| Caricatures and cartoons - 1888 - 324 pages
...an average one about £15. What shall we try to make of our boys — Jockeys or Comedians P " 'Tin better to have tried and failed, Than never to have tried at all." Many a rising young Barrister who heard WOOD'S evidence on this point must have wished he had gone... | |
| 1861 - 490 pages
...reason for commencing it, and whether we can say in the case of classical translations, that it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. There is indeed one point of view, and that a most important one, measured from which Mr. Martin becomes... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 404 pages
...Praeleetiones, or Muller's Dorians. Of what are called results obtained, no boast shall be made. It was at least better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. On reviewing thcse early attempts at the enlargement of boyish minds, it now seems that, over and above... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 428 pages
...Praelectiones, or Muller's Dorians. Of what are called results obtained, no boast shall be made. It was at least better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. On reviewing these early attempts at the enlargement of boyish minds, it now seems that, over and above... | |
| Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1879 - 1092 pages
...hope for success, save in exceptional instances. Still, it is open to question whether it were not better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. The idea was a noble one, and though the attempt to realize was predestined to failure, the seeds of... | |
| Lady Wood - 1876 - 312 pages
...opportunity of trying your skill." " Yes, probably I should make a shameful failure, but you know ' "Tis better to have tried and failed, Than never to have tried at all,' to parody the well-known lines." " I wonder if a man who is plucked at Cambridge thinks so ?" murmured... | |
| Henry Strickland Constable - Medicine - 1879 - 314 pages
...considers that just as "it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," so it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all ; and who even recognizes that some of the greatest real successes in the history of the world have... | |
| Oscar Browning - English literature - 1890 - 200 pages
...be accomplished. But if the work is ever to be done, the way must be paved by partial failure. It is better to have tried and failed, than never to have tried at all. Let us trace the development of George Eliot's art in its more outward aspects. Novel-writing did not... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1902 - 804 pages
...conviction of Sheridan. But, at any rate, in a matter which affects the very foundations of justice, it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. Here i? a man guilty of offences as fatal, not only to the administration of justice, but to all respect... | |
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