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> [“But the heart lives its own life, spinning gossamer threads that float away astern across time and space, joining us invisibly to that which made and fashioned us, and to which we hope to return.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/filson-young/but-the-heart-lives-its-own-life-spinning-gossamer-threads-that-float/)

[Filson Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/filson-young/)

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## More by Filson Young

> [“Time is no more for the fifteen hundred souls who perished with them; but Honour and Glory, by strange ways and unlooked-for events, have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/filson-young/time-is-no-more-for-the-fifteen-hundred-souls-who-perished-with-them/)

[Filson Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/filson-young/)

> [“But the heart lives its own life, spinning gossamer threads that float away astern across time and space, joining us invisibly to that which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/filson-young/but-the-heart-lives-its-own-life-spinning-gossamer-threads-that-float/)

[Filson Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/filson-young/)

> [“For there is one thing that the designers of this sea-palace seem to have forgotten and seem to be a little ashamed of—and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/filson-young/for-there-is-one-thing-that-the-designers-of-this-sea-palace-seem-to/)

[Filson Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/filson-young/)

> [“for there were people on the Titanic who had so entrenched themselves behind ramparts of wealth and influence as to have wellnigh forgotten that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/filson-young/for-there-were-people-on-the-titanic-who-had-so-entrenched-themselves/)

[Filson Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/filson-young/)

> [“To say that all the men who died on the Titanic were heroes would be as absurd as to say that all who were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/filson-young/to-say-that-all-the-men-who-died-on-the-titanic-were-heroes-would-be/)

[Filson Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/filson-young/)

> [“In such moments all artificial bonds are useless. It is what men are in themselves that determines their conduct; and discipline and conduct like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/filson-young/in-such-moments-all-artificial-bonds-are-useless-it-is-what-men-are/)

[Filson Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/filson-young/)

> [“for it is not always the loudest whisper that is the most important.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/filson-young/for-it-is-not-always-the-loudest-whisper-that-is-the-most-important/)

[Filson Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/filson-young/)

> [“The fields of foam-flecked blue, sunlit or cloud-shadowed by day; the starlight on the waters; the slow and scarcely perceptible swinging of the ship’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/filson-young/the-fields-of-foam-flecked-blue-sunlit-or-cloud-shadowed-by-day-the/)

[Filson Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/filson-young/)

> [“There is nothing that man can build that nature cannot destroy, and far as he may advance in might and knowledge and cunning, her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/filson-young/there-is-nothing-that-man-can-build-that-nature-cannot-destroy-and/)

[Filson Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/filson-young/)

> [“Phillips taps out his “O.K., O.M.,” which is a kind of cockney Marconi for “All right, old man.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/filson-young/phillips-taps-out-his-o-k-o-m-which-is-a-kind-of-cockney-marconi-for/)

[Filson Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/filson-young/)

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