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Joshua Slocum has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number…
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And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I…
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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day…
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If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She…
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Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
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They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some…
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I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a…
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Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!
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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as…
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Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.
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To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on…
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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound…
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day…
— Joshua Slocum
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As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength…
— Salman Rushdie
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
— Eugene Ionesco
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The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,
— Bashar al-Assad
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No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
— Horatio Nelson
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The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today…
— William Goldman
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Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and…
— Homer
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A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond." "If only we had a captain here.
— Marissa Meyer
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