#succession

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#anything #endures #fast #grows #one thing

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. ↗

— John Acton

#dead #nations #off #past #reign

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#arrives #jerks #more #often #quickly

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ↗

— Helen Keller

#lessons #life is a #lived #must #succession

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth. ↗

— Gerald Vann

#distorting #history #long #long succession #say

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#america #around #come #cyclical #different

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#be happy #brilliant #climax #decisions #grim

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#endures #fast #grows #one thing #rapidly

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#channels #fully #grace #held #i

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#distinct #drama #energy #epic #experiences