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• Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

  Plutarch

  War, Tempest, Fortune

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• Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Adversity, Brave

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• A living gale is better than a dead calm.

  Carolyn Wells

  Calm

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• Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.

  William Hazlitt

  Distance, Men, Numbers

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.38

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• Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching Fire, Unthinkable, Mines

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.638, Scholastic Inc.

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• to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Heart, Flags

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage

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• In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

  Horace

  Adversity, Prosperity, Sail

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• Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale.

  J. K. Rowling

  Friends, Heart, Roots

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• There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Patience, Lying, Blow

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.61

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• What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

  Henry Abbey

  Sea, Tree, Knees

  Henry Abbey, “What Do We Plant?”

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• The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

  Isaac Watts

  Passion, Rising, Tempest

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• One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Heart, Charity, Letters

  Phyllis McGinley, Gerald Durrell (1969). “Birds, beasts, and relatives”, Viking Adult

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• Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Running, Father, Night

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.29, Penguin

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• I knew that we'd have a big following because the graphic novel [ The Walking Dead] is so popular, and I knew that with Frank Darabont and Gale Ann Hurd at the helm that we were doing something very special.

  Laurie Holden

  Walking Dead, Special, Bigs

  Source: collider.com

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• It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.

  William Hague

  Simple, Giving, Matter

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• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

  Alexander Pope

  Ocean, Passion, Wind

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.69

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• If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Reflection, Wind, Sea

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.169, Hackett Publishing

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• One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Positive, Attitude, Blow

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• But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth;
  The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth:
  Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
  Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Flower, Health

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales; Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sad, Heart, Love Is

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”

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• The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blow, Giving, Towers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.356, Penguin

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• Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fate, Lazy, Rising

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• Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.

  Sappho

  Heart, Mountain, Uprooting

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• writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

  Alice Childress

  Writing, Light, Wind

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• The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.

  Robert Bridges

  Moon, Clouds, Wind

  Robert Seymour Bridges, “Low Barometer”

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