"It is better to go down on the……" — Hamilton Wright Mabie
"It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage."
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19 Quotes by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Hamilton Wright Mabie has 19 quotes on this site.
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The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when…
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless…
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There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing…
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To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's…
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He strains his conversation through a cigar.
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and…
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Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for…
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which…
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The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company…
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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he…
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of…
— Stephen Covey
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The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few…
— Tacitus
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers,…
— August Strindberg
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Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long,…
— Walt Whitman
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In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to…
— Edith Wharton
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If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and…
— A B Simpson
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I realized both the upper and lower body must be held securely in place with one strap across the chest…
— Nils Bohlin
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the…
— Jack Adams
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Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in…
— Anne Perry
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Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.
— Wright Morris
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At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the…
— Richard E. Byrd
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