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• I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fear, Worry, Storm

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• And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wind, Play, Harps

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.30

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• Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Children, Purple, Light

  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1829). “The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia”, p.8

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• There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

  Errol Flynn

  Brother, Lying, Sea

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• There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

  Alan Villiers

  Men, Sea, Sailing

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• And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

  Edward Gibbon

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

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• When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.

  James Cameron

  Crazy, Docks, Titanic Movie

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• The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.

  Tennessee Williams

  Nice, Ocean, Doctors

  "A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts".

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• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

  Barry Sheene

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each summer I find that the ranks have perceptibly thinned. The longshore captain is still there, many of the men who are not any older than myself, but their viewpoint is not that of a man who sailed his square rigged ship out one morning with China as his destination.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Summer, Morning, Men

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• When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

  Pablo Picasso

  People, Shipwreck, Dies

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• The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Heart, Emotional

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• If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

  Marilyn Manson

  Real, Want, Who Your Friends Are

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• It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Games, Slave Ships, People

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• Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.

  Robert M. Price

  Real, Believe, Past

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• The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

  Theodore Parker

  Book, Thinking, Make You Think

  "The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man".

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• Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

  Wilbur Ross

  Strange, Kind, Commodity

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• It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

  Francis Drake

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry,
  A fleet of ships is the fairest thing
  On the face of the black earth, but I say
  It's what one loves.

  Sappho

  Army, Black, Earth

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• Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

  Isaac Asimov

  Teacher, Congratulations, Writing

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• I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.

  Thomas Merton

  Home, Sea, Track

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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• We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Powerful, Character, Sea

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.107, Princeton University Press

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• I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!

  Stewart Francis

  Together, Saws, Documentaries

  "Edinburgh fringe's 10 funniest jokes revealed" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Reflection, Self

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• Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

  Tamora Pierce

  Ocean, Sea, Voice

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Circle of Magic #1: Sandry's Book”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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