"If the Spray discovered no continents on her……" — Joshua Slocum
"If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea."
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Joshua Slocum
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25 Quotes by Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum has 25 quotes on this site.
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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for…
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And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say…
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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came…
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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…
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I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he…
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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…
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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…
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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still…
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On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea.…
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More Continents Quotes
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Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth,…
— Annie Besant
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
— James Agee
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look…
— Bono
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
— Italo Calvino
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through…
— David Cameron
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The…
— David Cameron
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,…
— David Cameron
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
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The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer…
— Richard Lamm
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