"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner." — English Proverb

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• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. — Samuel Butler
• I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
• No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century.… — Walter Lippmann
• I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to… — Mikhail Lermontov
• Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let… — Leonard Ravenhill
• Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so… — Thomas S. Monson
• Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post — Martin Tyler
• Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For… — Walt Whitman
• Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was… — Bill Bryson
• His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth… — Luigi Pulci
• Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who… — Elwyn Brooks White

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