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• Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

  Alexander Pope

  Littles, Gale, Driving

  Alexander Pope (1776). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.75

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• The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide.

  Joseph Conrad

  Rivers, Anchors, Wind

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad”, BookRix

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• Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Friendship, Eye, Sea

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• Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain Jim, I cannot sail." "Then down with the galley slaves you go." "But Captain Jim, I cannot row." "Then you must be the pirate's clerk." "But Captain Jim, I cannot work.

  Shel Silverstein

  Pirate, Swim, Clerks

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• Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Thinking, Talking

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• I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  White, People, Snow

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• I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Future, Sea

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.146, Penguin

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• Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

  John Denver

  Music, Stars, Future

  Song: The Eagle and the Hawk, Album: Aerie, 1972

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• blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

  Lucille Clifton

  Eye, Kissing, Blessing

  Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

  Ray Davies

  Peace, War, Special

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• I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

  Janet Fitch

  Turtles, Sea, Floating

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it is with me. And I was thinking, would he know me when I came to him? Yes! Sitting in his hall, he will see me sail into the bay, and he will run down to meet me on the shore; he will wade into the sea and pull my boat onto the sand and welcome me as his wayfaring brother. Why will he do this? Because he too has suffered, and he knows...HE KNOWS...Is that not good news?

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Running, Brother, Thinking

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• Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, America, Unions

  "The Building of the Ship" l. 378 (1849)

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• If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him could sail away like two birds.

  Janet Fitch

  Fire, Two, Bird

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• This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping the top trees with light. The sky is clear and shining as a china plate and the water playfully ruffled with wind. Every wisp of fog is gone and the air is full of the resinous smell of the trees. Seabirds are flashing above the sails golden like creatures from Heaven, but the sailors raise a few shots to keep them from the rigging.

  Alice Munro

  Smell, Light, Hair

  Alice Munro (2011). “New Selected Stories”, p.322, Random House

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• I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Learning, Science

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• Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster of a sailing ship! He must stand at the very stern, with an unobstructed view of the sails. When sailing "by the wind" his eye is glued to the weather-side of the uppermost sail; he keeps it drawing a trace of wind, but never lets it fill.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Eye, Bridges

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• Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. The lighthouse of the Lord beckons to all as we sail the seas of life. Our home port is the celestial kingdom of God. Our purpose is to steer an undeviating course in that direction. A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder—never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: Chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Men, Sea

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• Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Fear, Future

  "The Building of the Ship" l. 378 (1849)

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• Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

  Mark Twain

  Perseverance, Stars, Tired

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2762, GENERAL PRESS

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• I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

  Don McLean

  Fun, Real, Teenager

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• A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

  Ami Ayalon

  Wind, Doe, Earth

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• In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

  Beverly Cleary

  School, Years, Ships

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• All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Hymns, Singing, Life Is Like

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• If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Jobs, Effort, Pay

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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