 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1905 - 350 หน้า
...cobbling little prose articles and in excellent good spirits. I thank you. . . . Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits." Again : " It is the mark of good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1907 - 410 หน้า
...and the old man feebly whispered, " Fruitful." Robert Louis Stevenson has said, " Our business in the world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits," and the saying has an element of truth in it, though more that is false than true. How many are denied... | |
 | Price Collier - 1911 - 450 หน้า
...meted out to all of us with even impartiality, he has learned a valuable lesson. As Stevenson puts it: "Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits." Every sport has the valuable effect of diverting both mind and body. A sharp gallop, a round of golf,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1909 - 158 หน้า
...below sea-level, and am scarce higher than when I started, I am as keen as ever for that enterprise. Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. Discipline of Conscience. SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH It were to be desired that all literary work, and chiefly... | |
 | 1904 - 1036 หน้า
...seeks. Happinesses are but his wayside campings; his soul is in the journey." "Our business in the world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits; and when the end comes to be content with this epitaph, Here lies one who meant well, tried a little,... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 524 หน้า
...through all his heart-breaking professional toil preserved the invincible gayety of the lover, — "is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits." In this characteristically Stevensonian paradox there is a perfect and a very noble expression of the... | |
 | 1920 - 880 หน้า
...defeats with a very human ill-grace. They had not then learned to say, as Stevenson has said since, '' Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fight in good spirits;'' and until Anglo-Saxon characteristics become impotent, as a world force, in... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 หน้า
...it comes early. Trollope, Orley Farm. NOTHING makes a man so cross as success. Trollope, Orley Farm. OUR business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. RL Stevenson, E, 84. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Ibid., y, 178. THE Secret... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 หน้า
...all of us failures — at least, the best of us are. James M. Barrie (1860-1937) British playwright Our business in this world is not to succeed, but...continue to fail, in good spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there... | |
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. 
