Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks;… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story in 1838 about a shipwreck and how three survivors killed and ate the third man, Richard… — Adam Anderson Copy Share Image
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or… — John Clare Copy Share Image
The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“in our civilization there are fearful hours - such are those when the criminal law pronounces shipwreck upon a man. What a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or… — John Clare Copy Share Image
An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly;… — Poemen Copy Share Image
Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
