Pastoral Resources

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him.

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.

The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head.

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.