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Sail Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
- Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
- A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at…
- O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
- The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
- Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt…
- For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
More Sail Quotes
- Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail… — Joseph Addison
- I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. — Louisa May Alcott
- Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst… — John Calvin
- In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common… — George Amos Dorsey
- We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and… — John F. Kennedy
- Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing… — Miyamoto Musashi
- In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations,… — Charles Spurgeon
- The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze. — Ramakrishna