Friendly Quote by Joseph Conrad

“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” quote by Joseph Conrad — Download Open image

“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”

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“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of…

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The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

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“Let the earth and the sea each have its own.”

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He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

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“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.”

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“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage-who can tell?-but truth-truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder-the man know, and can look on without a wink. But he must at…

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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief…

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“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -…

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“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

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“The fascination of the abomination—you know.”

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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

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“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world; it was work undertaken for the same reason as the work in potteries, in coal mines, in fields, in tool-grinding shops. It was labour, whose practical difference from the other forms of labour consisted in the…

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“Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs.”

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International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were…

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We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

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A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions…

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I think Diana was a very friendly person.

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I'm very friendly and nice.

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Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were also assessing everything in the room, much as Eddie's gaze was. It was a guardian thing. Rose was about my height and dressed very casually in jeans and a red tank top. But, as always, there…

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