#long

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#long #patterns #precepts #short #way

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#adversity #belong #good #good things #prosperity

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#becomes #bereft #commander #dependence #deserves

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#been #conclusions #correct #difficulty #drawing

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#dull #full #had #his #life

Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble. ↗

— Jeff Sessions

#bin #country #damaged #exists #here

At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#bow #camp #experience #fire #friction

Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#fort #largest #longest #medical #place