"Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South……" — Joshua Slocum
"Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over."
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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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If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be…
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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 Escapes Quotes
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one of 155 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the…
— Jimmy Cannon
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy…
— John Calvin
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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle…
— Ernest Renan
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed…
— Emile Durkheim
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What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
— Heraclitus
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It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.
— Robert Breault
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
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I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.
— Jeri Ryan
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he…
— Samuel Johnson
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes…
— Ayn Rand
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