"Do well" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... than if I had seen it, and that is why you do well in coming to-day, and would have done better in coming yesterday. This sort of life does not ...
— The Regent's Daughter • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
... fears. Some of these gentlemen are employed to shake their heads in proper companies; to doubt where all this will end; to be in mighty pain for the nation; to shew how impossible it is, that the public credit can be supported: to pray that all may do well in whatever hands; but very much to doubt that the Pretender is at the bottom. I know not any thing so nearly resembling this behaviour, as what I have often seen among the friends of a sick man, whose interest it is that he should die: The physicians protest they see no danger; the ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; • Jonathan Swift
... answered the Greek, "and he is a learned man, the master of the Sanhedrim. You will do well, young Jew, to listen to such a man. Socrates could not have answered me better. But now the sun is near setting. We must go ...
— The Valley of Vision • Henry Van Dyke
... language in his concluding note to the first chapter:— 楊氏所謂一篇之禮要, and Mao Hsi-ho's, in his 中庸說, 卷一, p. 11:— 此中庸一書之 要也. names are descriptive only of a portion of it. Where the phrase Chung Yung occurs in the quotations from Confucius, in nearly every chapter from the second to the eleventh, we do well to translate it by 'the course of the Mean,' or some similar terms; but the conception of it in Tsze-sze's mind was of a different kind, as the preceding analysis of the first chapter sufficiently shows [1]. 4. I may return to this point of the proper title for the Work ...
— THE CHINESE CLASSICS (PROLEGOMENA) Unicode Version • James Legge
... partial risings have marked French life. Why none of them should have culminated I will consider in a moment. Meanwhile, the foreign observer will do well to note the character of these movements, abortive though they were. It is like standing upon the edge of a crater and watching the heave and swell of the vast energies below. There may have been no actual eruption ...
— On Something • H. Belloc
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