 in order to do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be  The R.I. Schoolmaster - Page 2971862Full view - About this book
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 476 pages
...to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame. The fact is, that in order to do anything in this world worth doing,...shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 600 pages
...felicitous are these remarks npon the necessity of intellectual energy : ' In order to do any thing in thie world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating... | |
 | 1851 - 350 pages
...who, if they could only »1 to begin, would, in all £<• X great lengths in the he fact is, that in order to do anything in this world worth doing,...shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1852 - 584 pages
...to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame. The fact is, that in order to do anything in this world worth doing,...shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1852 - 592 pages
...to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame. The fact is, that in order to do anything in this world worth doing,...shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1852 - 610 pages
...to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame. The fact is, that in order to do anything in this world worth doing,...shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - English essays - 1854 - 296 pages
...probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame. The fact is, that in order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1854 - 472 pages
...probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame. The fact is, that in order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1855 - 400 pages
...probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame. The fact is, that in order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be ? perpetually... | |
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