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• The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

  William McFee

  Inspirational, Courage, Storm

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• It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

  George William Curtis

  Journey, Smooth Sailing, Achievement

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• I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

  John F. Kennedy

  Ocean, Thinking, Light

  Remarks in Newport at the Australian Ambassador's Dinner for the America's Cup Crews on September 14, 1962. "Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy", 1962.

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• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Sad, Depressing

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 3 "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth" pt. 4 (1874)

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• The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

  Paul Cayard

  Sea, Sailing, Earth

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• I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

  Edward Smith

  Safety, Gone, Causes

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• It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip.

  Elon Musk

  America, Mars, Obvious

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• What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.

  June Hunt

  Inspirational, Anchors, Wind

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• If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

  Glen Hansard

  Office, Another Day, Mark

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• Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Funny, Power

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sea, Doe, Use

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.64, Xist Publishing

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• A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Peace, War, Sea

  1959 In the NewYork Times, 24May.

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• We have met the enemy and they are ours.

  Oliver Hazard Perry

  Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Military

  Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

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• Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Voice, Silence, Darkness

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 3 "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth" pt. 4 (1874)

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• Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

  Charles Davis

  Inspirational, Funny, Beach

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• Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

  Tom Robbins

  Finding Yourself, Pilots, Inappropriate

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.103, Bantam

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• There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Storm, Strange, Hell

  Jimmy Buffett (2004). “A Salty Piece of Land”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.

  Edward Abbey

  Night, Rivers, Space

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• Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of a human life and making it possible for a person to die for their sake. A person without aspirations is like a ship without a rudder or a horse without a bridle. Aspirations give consistent order to life.

  Mas Oyama

  Spiritual, Horse, Order

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• At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Loyalty, Pride, Men

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.179, Island Press

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• We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Healing, Self Confidence

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• An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Art, Kings

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.161, Catholic Way Publishing

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• I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

  John Masefield

  Lonely, Stars, Sea

  "Sea Fever" l. 1 (1902).

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• Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Lying, Sea, Mystery

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• In calm water every ship has a good captain.

  Grover Cleveland

  Water, Captains, Calm

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