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• If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.

  George Whitefield

  Lying, Practice, Danger

  George Whitefield (1772). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Original Papers and Letters”, p.27

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• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Sea, Waiting

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.138

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• Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

  Publilius Syrus

  Society, Comfort

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 144, 1856.

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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, Ships, Dies

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• But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Feelings, Safe, Compass

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.1034, e-artnow

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• The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

  Mark Helprin

  Rainy Day, Finding Yourself, Enemy

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• Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Peace, War, Government

  "On the Water". Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.

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• Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Suffering

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers”, p.343

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• Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mistake, Believe, Self

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• I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

  John Donne

  Death, Exercise, Swimming

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.321

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• An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.

  Poemen

  Men, Suffering, Use

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• O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Brave, Soul

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 5

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• Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.

  Michael Robotham

  True Friend, Father, Lying

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• There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Suffering, Matter, Ships

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• Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.

  Charles Taze Russell

  Thinking, Infidelity, Mind

  Charles Taze Russell (2009). “Studies in the Scriptures”, General Books

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• It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that the inexpressible and unimaginable should ever remain veiled. And so the guilty man, who fortuitously touched on and revealed this aspect of living things, was taken to the place where he began and there is for ever beaten by the waves.

  Proclus

  Life, Taken, Math

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• If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human passions causing daily groans and disturbance in the hearts of men, wrecking the spiritual ship of the soul or the ship of human society; and pray fervently to the Lord that He may subdue the tempest of sins, as He once subdued the tempest at sea by His word, and that He may root our passions from our hearts, and re-establish in them unceasing tranquility.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Spiritual, Passion

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• There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Waves Breaking, Feet, House

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• Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.

  John Clare

  Dream, Sea, Joy

  John Clare (1965). “Selected poems”

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• Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

  Lord Byron

  Farewell, Sea, Sky

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Second”

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• We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

  Jean Anouilh

  House, Poison, Ships

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• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Waiting, Encounters, Danger

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.142

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• It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Miracle, Matter

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Old age is a shipwreck.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Birthday, Age, Aging

  Charles de Gaulle (1964). “The complete war memoirs of Charles de Gaulle”

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• Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.

  Joë Bousquet

  Night, Sea, Reminiscing

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