"Mankind owns four things that are no good……" — Antonio Machado
"Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down."
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47 Quotes by Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado has 47 quotes on this site.
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
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My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide…
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Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
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By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path
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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.…
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his…
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank…
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The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that…
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Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
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Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.
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What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
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More Anchor Quotes
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We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
— David Brinkley
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
— Kirk Cameron
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For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me…
— Kirk Cameron
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To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel…
— Emile M. Cioran
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My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk…
— Demi Lovato
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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell…
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by…
— June Hunt
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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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A babe is a mother's anchor.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many…
— Charles Lyell
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