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Act nothing in furious passion. It's like when you want...

Act nothing in furious passion. It's like when you want to sail on a stormy sea.

Quote by Thomas Fuller about pasion, nothing

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor...

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about woman, man, face

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change...

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Quote by Joseph Addison about common sense, change, man, sense, nature

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my...

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my life's ship.

Quote by Aeschylus about life

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail...

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my...

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott

A ship is said to be on the starboard or larboard tack, when she is close-hauled, with the wind upon the starboard or larboard side; and in this sense the distance which the sails in that position is considered as the length of the tack; although...

Quote by William Falconer about common sense, sense

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious...

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

Quote by William Falconer

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.

Quote by William Falconer about order, being

The intention of the reef is to reduce the surface of the sail in proportion to the increase of the wind; for which reason there are several reefs parallel to each other in the superior sails, whereby they may be still further diminished, in order...

Quote by William Falconer about intention, order, reason

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about being, companies, food, chance, man

Never sail the boat where the birds are walking.

Never sail the boat where the birds are walking.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever...

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest, we must learn to sail in high winds.

Quote by Aristotle Onassis about hope

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Quote by Dolly Parton

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in...

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about end

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Quote by William Penn about judgment

Written in blood - and Bigotry may swell. The sail he...

Written in blood - and Bigotry may swell. The sail he spreads for Heaven with blasts from hell!

Quote by Edward Moore about poetry, blood, hell

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